Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrive that Bolshevik Russia and Republican France should somehow be linked in close mutual accord has become a ruling passion with the wealthy No. 1 Socialist of France, that exquisitely cultivated Jew and famed rabble-rouser, M. Léon Blum. From rostrums as various as the curbstone of a Paris slum and the tribune of the Chamber, long-nosed, stringy-haired M. Blum has clarioned: "Socialism is my religion!" Last week he lay in bandages, "put to bed for his religion" by Royalist youths, who thus brazenly described the outrageous beating they gave Socialist Blum when his appearance...
James Boswell was an 18th Century Scot who was fond of the bottle and of great men's society. Because he was also a writer of talent and because he turned his admiring passion to such good account, he wrote what is still the world's best-known biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson). Like all literary men Boswell left behind him quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From...
...friends I made at Harvard was the man who translated the Odyssey next to me on a narrow bench in Sever Hall," smiled the poet. "I bad a passion for Latin and Greek when I was in college. Professor Morison to the contrary, I was not driven from Harvard by the daily theme requirement, as I took no English courses which required daily themes; to prove to you that I was a worker, however, I may say that I took voluntary composition courses in Greek and Latin...
...none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course Mr. Jeffers should know better than to bless "The Hermaphrodite", which has a superficial smoothness that some people, like Mr. Benjamin De Casseres, the author of the Preface, will mistake for "passion, seusuousness, and and spontaneity." But still waters do not always run deep--in poetry, and facility is not all. Indeed it is to be doubted whether Mr. Loveman possesses this, if we examine the other poems in the volume...
...college Peter finds one understand- ing soul, offering the author the opportunity in passages of rare and striking beauty to relieve the tension he has developed. The unfolding of Peter Franzman's quarrel with the world is convincingly done, the scenes of passion compelling and beautiful. Here the author's technique becomes suddenly apparent in one paragraph. Peter's life is like a series of vividly coloured bits of film in his own mind. His memory is the filter through which every new emotion is perceived. Friesen's book is a series of magnificently complete little pictures, strung together...