Word: passion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl on Page 44 (The Four Lads; Columbia). An upbeat quartet is driven by the mail-order economy into a fine state of mail-order passion. "I'd like to get," carol the boys with a slogging beat, "a girl from Sears and Roebuck/ Like the one that I saw ... on Page...
...outgoing as a trombone, he had small chance of being inconspicuous among the grey and shadowy cadres of Soviet espionage. Also, as music director for Paramount theaters and Paramount Studios, later as an independent movie producer, he was a conspicuously successful man in a business that has no passion for anonymity...
...Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill...
...Editor, in its second issue, essays again in an editorial to tie life, art and eternity all together in a nice brown ribbon. If a reader can bring his gaseous juices under control after pondering the editorial ("We think that the few selections between these covers have the passion of youth, mixed also with a complexity of concern."), he will find a fine, if editable, story by David Farquhar, a rather sensational reappearance of Piero Heliczer in "Unpoem Number One," and a couple of West Indian sketches by Keith Lowe...
...Must Die (French). The most powerful religious film of recent years: a Jules Dassin (Rififi) version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...