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Football (soccer) is a passion in Scotland, though the two most successful teams are from Glasgow.
Some achievers--call them carpe diem -ists--have talent and passion and deserve to rise, but many are rockets without payloads.
Mr. Dickson says, for instance, that he has long had a special passion for apple names, and quotes several hundred of them, but he ignores the National Apple Register of the United Kingdom , by uriel W.G. Smith, which catalogues the names of 22,000 cultivars.
Yet, the close bond of religious zeal and American politics returns in the Awakening in the early decades of the nineteenth century, a period leading not only to the abolitionist movement but also to the expression of religious passion in foreign policy, particularly in westward expansion under the ideology of manifest destiny.
The English writer Daniel O'Brien, in his modest, more objective new book, Clint Eastwood Film-Maker , suggests that Eastwood wouldn't actually put up with Parker for a second: The saxophonist's unruly passion, his commitment to his art, is the antithesis of Eastwood's manly, frugal, shoot-it-and-move-on way of working.