While I wish the rabbi all the best, there seems no obvious reason why the royal family's traditional aversion to foreskins should prove any more influential than its passion for polo, corgis and homeopathic remedies.
Formed in 1971 and now sporting well over 6,000 members, the Society for American Baseball Research has become a quietly influential institution, its passion for the game's history and detail perfectly mirroring the lighthearted physical struggles of the vintage ballers down the road.
Many of the most influential theorists of "passions" and "affections" had been moral philosophers, clergymen, or both.
"The Cold War and the Soviet Union are in the past," the BIS says at one point, "but not the Russian passion for influential and active measures (including illegal agents)."Interestingly, the BIS report also includes a new emphasis on China.
In 2004, when Exorcist: The Beginning sparked the current exorcism boom, another film released then may have been just as influential: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
"Drums of Passion" was hugely influential among musicians, helping to spark a wave of African-jazz fusions in the early 1960's.
The Stoic evaluation of the passions was extremely influential – and contentious – for later authors, particularly among the seventeenth-century neo-Stoics, as well as among those authors interested in defending the value of the passions.
"Even though there weren't very many people at the conference, they were interesting, influential people, and their level of passion for this event was off the charts".
His passion for British theatre also proved influential; the legacy of the collaborations he introduced can be seen in the current production of "Richard III" directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey (pictured top).
He has fused African and Western modern dance and come up with an influential style that is all heart, grace, skill and passion.
