Word: passion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tread & Wine. In Seattle, pressed into emergency service to play the role of the Apostle Simon in a performance of the Passion Play, Automobile Dealer Joseph Gandy took advantage of a lull during the Last Supper to sell a Ford to the man playing James...
...Most paradoxically of all, out of Communist Russia, a society that officially denies the existence of God, Pasternak has sent a deeply Christian statement of the condition of man, such as most writers of the professedly Christian West are too embarrassed or too unbelieving to make." See BOOKS, The Passion of Yurii Zhivago...
...something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than any other kind. Osborne has an almost unique ability to make moral passion into dramatic intensity...
...theater piece, Cue for Passion holds attention and, with no greater indebtedness than many Broadway rewrites, uses a far happier model. But as creative drama it is too explicit, too unlarge, in its writing too literary-often seeming, not like prose as compared to Shakespeare's poetry, but like prose as distinct from talk...
...busy little bee that improves each shining hour is a slouch compared to a great many natural-history writers. Such a one is Britain's John Crompton, who has proved once again that a true passion-even a love of man for insect-is the substance of literature. Displaying a talent that recalls Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Apiarist Crompton has in the past written engagingly on the ant, the hunting wasp and the spider. But evidently the bee is his true poetic faith-and the bee in his bonnet is as good as a sonnet...