Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...
...Observatory and at 16 was the author of the first of his numerous works, a treatise on the Cosmos. His remarkable career is best explained by a sentence from his own memoirs: "To learn, to learn without end, for the sole pleasure of knowing, has always been the dominant passion of my spirit...
...adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...
...story of Duse and Gabriele d'Annunzio, soldier, poet, playwright, is scarcely matched in all history. He, the great passion of her life, apparently returned her love, and for a time they lived together. It is indicative of the idolatry with which she was regarded that Roman Catholic Italy took no exception to the union, though Duse and d'Annunzio were never married. La Gioconda, one of the great plays of all literature, was one of the various artistic products of their life together...