Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week smart Adolf Hitler, when he decided to make the Great News, first ordered S. A. Storm Troop leaders to hurry from all parts of the Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion ran high. Snarled a Storm Troop leader more outspoken than the rest: "Next year there should be no difficulty in finding the right man to play Judas Iscariot...
Madame Renoir was wife and business manager combined for the old gentleman. Auguste Renoir's passion for the female nude began to fade when he was nearing 70 and practically paralyzed by arthritis, but Mme Renoir knew that Renoir nudes were what the public wanted. The dimpled housemaids that she hired were used as models between meals.* Occasionally the old gentleman's mind would wander; he would fill the corners of his canvases with exciting studies of vegetables, fruit, flowers. These were carefully...
...Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion for realism a free rein. Nobody has intervened.'' Many a reader will be grinningly grateful...
...death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch law. We have too little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret...
...stage show this week takes on the character of a Continental revue and is quite varied in content. Dancers, comedians, a magician, and a screen star, make an entertaining revue. Margo, the star of Crime Without Passion, and Rumba is featured...