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Thread #125468   Message #2936218
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
28-Jun-10 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: World Cup 2010
Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
To Tootler: as I suggested, in verse, just above, Alf Ramsey encouraged calm and discipline NOT passion and tolerance. Further, it seems to keep a job on the BBC, these days, a presenter has to use the word "passionate" every other sentence...

Or take it from J.E. Bode, in the English hymn "O Jesus, I have Promised":

"O let me hear thee speaking
In accents clear and still,
Above the storms of passion..."