Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passion," an claborate movie which has been playing to crowded houses at the Capitol Theatre, New York, will open in Boston shortly. The scenes are from French history and were made in Berlin by a German film company, the rights having been sold to an American producer. Pola Negri is the new-found star in "Passion...
...Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters...
...Massachusetts to which we owe the best that we have, the best that we are, the best that we can be today. I only purpose to give a brief outline of our history. To write history as it should be written demands of the historian breadth of mind and passion for truth, scholarship, idealism and infinite patience. Also an independence of mind bent on truth...
...angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent upon the means of achieving his object that he mistakes the means for the end, and by his passion for it blinds himself to the good he might have accomplished or perchance has actually attained...
...Hampden plays the part of Shylock with more than usual passion; he leads the audience to feel the hatred, the fawning servility, and the cruel pride of the Jew. In the scene in which Shylock returns to find his daughter fied, and his money taken, Mr. Hampden overdoes the wild despair of the Usurer, who alternately cries out for his daughter and his ducats. He loses the calculating strength of the Jew's character in the wild passion of his despair. If Mr. Hampden over-emphasizes the emotion of this scene, he brings the tragedy of the situation before...