Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Study of the Passion for Things Present and Things to Come...
...like the sultry air before a thunderstorm broods over the book- an air of suppressed, excruciated passion. Not passion in the Titivating Stories sense, there is the passion of the human mind for perfection as well-passion for material things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what...
...many struggles and an incidental murder-her sex was finally discovered and the mystery of her past cleared up satisfactorily -and she and Druro, presumably, settled happily down to life on the veldt together. A frankly melodramatic story, cleanly and competently written, with none of the laborious " ashes of passion " touch one has met in some novels dealing with the same locale...
...made it more than ever apparent that whole masses of people were being led about by the nose. Men fought without knowing why they were fighting; storms of passion arose out of misapprehension. Therefore the resolve was taken in the heat of the battle, that the masses should be leavened by education, and the men should be taught to live peacably side by side through seeing one another clearly. In the United States the first material development of this idea was the formation of the Committee of One Hundred under the leadership of Mr. Elihu Root. Its purpose, announced early...
...marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes and to the annual Paris-in-a-day Americans as well. If the Passion Players are able to line their purses, they will at least render us some quittance and they will bear their treasure home to an unselfish cause...