Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first triumph 15 years ago, she was twelve-year-old Frankie in The Member of the Wedding. With a small voice issuing from a still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina, a madwoman as Hamlet's Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because...
...elevation of the host during Mass, one gets an indulgence of seven years. Kissing the Pope's ring carries with it a 300-day indulgence but a bishop's gets only 50. Ascending the holy stairs in Rome on one's knees, "whilst meditating on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ," is worth nine years per step...
...dawn, the borrowed bride seems agreeable enough when her master, defying the laws of God and man, declares himself sole possessor of his prize. Though their tepid passion would scarcely justify a stern frown, it somehow brings on rebellion, invasion, indeed an all-hands orgy of picturesque violence. Enemy hordes besiege the tower, piling up in the moat while oil and dissension boil within. "Is this what we get for loving?" asks the fair captive...
What happens is what usually happens to a man who sits around and waits for things to happen: the wrong thing. One day Carlos sees a woman on the street, and is instantly smitten with the sort of grand passion that is possible only to the passive. He makes her his mistress, and is about to make her his wife when he discovers that the lady is his long-lost sister. Here at last is the romantic disaster for which Carlos has been secretly hoping, the excuse that will justify his failure to stand up and fight like...
...everything written about Mary and the Scotland of her age to produce his defense. Some of the letters, he concludes, were written by one of Bothwell's mistresses. Others were actually written by Mary to Bothwell in the course of legitimate business, but then doctored to suggest illicit passion and intrigue. One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result her handwriting was almost indistinguishable from Mary's. Davison claims that at the urging of her husband, who turned against Mary, she forged and inserted...