Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Sunya Pratt was 14, her father gave her a number of books, told her to choose her-own religion. She chose Buddhism with "its philosophy of com passion, calmness, emancipation from ignorance and prejudice, its justice." Later she made Buddhists of her children and her husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions...
...Veneration for the sepulchre and reverence for the dead belong to the most ancient instincts of the human race. . . . This day the discord of party passion divides us not. ... . There are no minority views in this committee's report. It is accepted by unanimous consent without debate. That report constitutes the epitaph of ... seven strong men. . . . Their roll calls have all been answered. Their speeches have all been uttered. Their offices have been vacated by the decree of fate. Soon others will occupy their places. ... It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of life in which one surrenders...
...still sees through the eyes of youth. . . . Time has not dulled his sense of news. He wants to make people laugh, cry, to stir them with his own eagerness for news and his passion for the greatness of America."-Older...
Fresh from yesterday's successful four hour performance, the Harvard Glee Club, 128 strong, will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra this afternoon and evening for its second presentation of Bach's renowned "St. Matthew Passion." Dr. Serge Koussevitzky will conduct...
Proclaimed by critics as the greatest creation of its kind, comparable only to the famous B Minor Mass, the "St. Matthew Passion" is a musical drama which has been described as "the deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords...