Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that arouses as much -» passion as the California grape strike, the subject of TIME'S cover story this week, inevitably poses a doubly difficult task for journalists. The simplest facts become fogged by rhetoric; rumor and innuendo abound and every source, it seems, has chosen sides. To meet this challenge, TIME'S Los Angeles bureau deployed nine correspondents and stringers across the Southwest. For several weeks, they toured the towns and vineyards, traveling thousands of miles and talking to hundreds of people for their report to Writer Keith Johnson and Editor Laurence Barrett...
...Jesus--A Passion Play for Cambridge opens at the Agassiz Theater, playing through July 19, and 22-26. Further information at the Agassiz Theater, 10 Garden Street 2-6 p.m., phone...
...FIXER. A persecuted Jewish handyman in turn-of-the-century Russia battles his fate with an intensity that makes this John Frankenheimer film a harrowing and moving experience. Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform their difficult assignments with fierce passion...
...from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays and quarterback sneaks. Professionals of the caliber of Petrosian and Spassky, both of whom are paid handsomely as the coaches of trade-union teams, are recognized on the street wherever they go and asked advice about chess tactics...
Toperoff comes to another conclusion. Though no true horseplayer ever truly reforms, his passion for wagering eventually is spent. He ends up buying an old pony-as a personal companion. "Today I discovered an old pile of Lucky's manure," he writes. "It was turning back to grass. And I saw it was a miracle." Somehow this becomes a touching ending to a delightful book. An alternate epitaph might be the horseplayers' eternal lament, "I shoulda...