Word: passion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...embrace the world entire, both fact and fancy. One expects to find, however, in that embrace more real grip than is evident in the present instance. With but few exceptions, the pieces have the fussiness of old age, without the latter's choice reflectiveness; they lack the urgent passion of youth...
...Farge" by Mr. Ernst is notable as a triumph over limitations of space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems...
...homage to his beloved as the two sit together in a fragrant garden by the sea. The external situation is finely conceived--the reader feels the moonlight, the flowers, the booming of the sea, the isolation. Part of Milton's canon, that poetry should be simple, sensuous and passionate, the poem is faithful to; it has burning passion and sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails to produce its intended effect. Here I am not sure that I understand the emotional situation: what is the "pain" for which...
...American reader, who has not the pictures before him to refer to, are Mr. Berenson's generalizations--the pages in which he sets forth his main ideas, or sums up some really important master, like Montegna or Corrreggio. His remarks on the grotesque, on pettiness, on the modern passion for activity, and on the dangers of the antique--to mention only a few of the topics he touches upon by the way--are penetrating and suggestive, the product of a mind that forms its own opinions, and is ready to maintain them against all comers...
...less a leader because he has few followers, for the true leader of men cares not for himself, but only for his cause and his followers. This is the metaphysic of leadership, simple in the extreme, the passion for the goal. True, that goal is not always reached, but there is motion toward it. Many a leader has gone through life with no recognition of his ambitions and efforts, only after death to have his plans utilized and his greatness appreciated. And what is this goal toward which nations, no less than individuals, are striving? We cannot say definitely what...