Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weimar' as been a favorite phrase applied to Olympus in his old age, as though Goethe, horned in Weimar, were like Zeus in Olympus, in serene calmness far removed from human cares in troubles. But what must we think of a man who, at the age of 74, falls passionately in involve with a girl of 19? . . . 'Passion rings suffering,' he wrote at that time. But the fruit of this passion was one of the deepest and most beautiful love poems ever written, 'The Elegy of Marienad...
America's penchant and passion for quantity production should not misdirect her in the production of college graduates, for she needs educated leaders as much as she needs a continuously rising democracy. These she can never have either in her public life or in the advancement of learning and the arts until that leadership radiates from her universities...
...into rehearsal by the Swedish National Theatre. This time the Prince has essayed a drama dealing with life at sea, has entitled it On Board, and drawn for background upon the events surrounding the several active commands which he has held in the Swedish Navy. Considering the passion for seafaring which animates so many Scandinavians, the Prince's latest choice of subject matter is considered as well advised, if not so sensational, as his negroid theme of two years...
...Fascisti assert that this "reform" is made necessary by the fact that Italians are frequently swayed by passion at local elections, and do not return to office such able men as the Central Government would set over them...
...does the CRIMSON intend to frankly admit that college training has produced these results; that to doubt all things, whether affirmed by the wisdom of ages to be true or not, has become the singlemental passion of the college man indeed, his single mental ability; that, although he may appear saturated with knowledge, he has been given no real intelligence for he knows not when to doubt and when to accept truth, nor can he reject false suspicions and fallacious arguments; in other words, that he displays no judgement or wisdom, only the conceit of intelligence and the obsession...