Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...
...Also there is a gradual corporalization of the individual: he begins to think of nothing but his bodily state, his temperature, his meals, his senses. Up here love is not the sweet, soft amusement and convention that it is down in the flat lands. It is a fierce elemental passion which absorbs once whole being, which is too awful to be spoken of either jokingly or even as a matter of serious conversation. He experiences this immediately in his desire for Clavadia Chanchat, an exotic, purely, animalistic woman at the "better Russian Table...
...wiry, serious-looking man of 32-Charles Duncan Chamberlin-a product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining...
...chief source, indeed of Beethoven's inspiration was his passionate and persistent love of nature. While taking his daily walks, his friends spoke of him as being in his "raptus." He says himself, "No one can love nature more than I". His works, in consequence, have the elemental force and variety of natural phenomena. With what dramatic power does he at times take us in his arms, hurl us down, and stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life...
...Majesty is first a soldier, second a yachtsman and third an antiquarian?nor are his claims to these distinctions boasts. His early passion for the Army persists in the rigid, austere discipline of the Italian Court. He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen. Finally his carefully amassed collection of ancient Italian coins is scarcely rivaled. In this character of antiquarian His Majesty came to bright, frenzied Naples last week...