Word: passion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunman Diplomacy. Chanting Arab unity, impoverished, discontented people can be taught to condemn their own lawful Arab rulers as "traitors" merely for entering into agreements with "foreigners." To this persuasive passion, Nasser adds the helping hand of subversion. An Israeli statistician who has been keeping score says that since Nasser came to power, every Arab country has kicked out at least one Egyptian military attache. Such is the menace of Nasser's penetration in other countries that when the Libyans caught their Egyptian attache handing out guns last year, they passed a law expelling all North African military attaches...
...Arab world east of Suez, not one ruler pledged to the West remained in power last week except by the presence of Western troops. Whatever existing boundaries might be, there was no blinking the fact: the most elemental force in the Middle East is the unifying passion of Al Umma al Arabia, and Nasser symbolizes...
Uncle George, in his normal moments, was the Ministry of Education's chief troubleshooter; e.g., when scores of moppets were hospitalized after eating a contaminated school lunch, Uncle George was called on to calm the troubled waters. But now Uncle George needed calming. A growing passion for music had developed, first, into the mild eccentricity of barking and screaming like a normal conductor. This whim had so worsened that now, night after night, Civil Servant George "conducted" whole orchestras on his phonograph, laid grandiose plans for philharmonic "festivals," hired and fired entire woodwind sections. He also attended every major...
...Passion in the Church. The concerts took place in the 17th century Saint-Pierre Church. There, beneath an improbable altarpiece of gilded cherubs and bare-breasted angels, Cellist Casals shuffled in from the vestry on short, hesitant feet, bearing a brown-grained viola da gamba by the pegs. When he motioned the audience to its seats with his bow, his movements were crabbed with age. But when he began to play, the vast, hollow church filled with luminous, lucid sound, suffused with a passion that is the wonder of musicians the world over. Each night the audience paid Casals...
...would protect himself, as he had always done when Radcliffe freshmen, wild with prep school passion, stormed his sports car to win his favor. Ever haughty, ever proud, Vag had constructed a wall between the world and himself. All that was inane, boorish, and crude was forever shut off from...