Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wildish young man can be adopted. They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser...
...passion and prejudice of the hour my mistakes are magnified and my achievements are minimized, I shall find consolation in the fact that I am not the first Governor who has had to suffer the same penalty as the price of political honor...
...three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close...
...Abraham's Bosom concerns a Negro who tried to raise up the Carolina blacks through education. Blundering, fanatically inspired, he plods to frustration, overcome by white prejudice, black inertia, his own blunted intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright...
...Ballyhoo. A maudlin play stutters about the love of Starlight Lil, circus-rider, for an irreproachable young man. She considers herself unworthy. To free the boy from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover...