Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
While the value of the mark was dropping almost to that mythical region in mathematics, infinity, the Passion Players continued to charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder...
...David Leizer, and bestows upon him an inheritance of two million dollars, which he exhorts him to give away to the poor for the glory of God. David does so without reserve or discrimination, even bringing death and agony into his own family in his altruistic passion. But the effect of his gifts is to turn the people against him when his money runs out. They stone him because he cannot perform miracles. Anathema, exulting in his proven exposure of divine justice, then returns to the gates of Heaven to demand an explanation. He refuses to tell Anathema anything more...
...Sublimation of Our Ruling Passion If you would see the most typical product of American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before...
...Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...