Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Burt's novel tries to view the contemporary scene and to make some interpretation of it. "Work," says Gulian, "work that fills every crevice of your passion for work; love, as much a part of you as your breath; and a background of quiet beauty." It is a fair formula. But how much of it would Gulian have fulfilled without accident? He himself tried work of various sorts and did not find ,that it filled every crevice- just to take one of the three. Nevertheless, it is an interesting, serious, first novel. At times...
...Cabot '22, of Boston, is now appearing as third leading man in a picture called "Puritan Passion," which stars Glenn Hunter, at the Modern and Beacon theatres...
...great plays now "on Broadway" is G. B. Shaw's Saint Joan. A central scene is a conversation between the Bishop of Beauvais and the Earl of Warwick. The Bishop objects to Joan of Arc because in her passion for God, she overlooks the respect which is a Bishop's due. The Earl objects to her because, in her passion for France, she overlooks the respect due to a Feudal Earl. Bishop and Earl join hands to burn...
With the unemotional conciseness of a consular report, this book gives the record of his amazingly versatile and far-flung career. An early passion for travel sent him to Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...
...prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges us with moral callousness in our attitude towards prohibition, and what not no one is surprised. When, relenting somewhat, he hastens to add that Americans "are just beginning", he takes some of the sting from his caustic comments...