Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive us if we do not feel that we were desecrating the memory of our dead any more than those who re-enact the Passion play desecrate the name of the Lord...
...whiny, rhetorical self-pity, though ten minutes before the final curtain Bea Richards pierces the cloudy monotony with a stormburst of tears and sun shafts of helpless laughter. But by then it is too late for the playgoer to be greatly cheered by a solitary rainbow of real passion...
Humpty Dumpty Hunt. This miraculous reunion in Richmond owes nothing to the ancient gods of Egypt, everything to Egyptologist Bernard Bothmer of the Brooklyn Museum, a man who plays the mating game with a passion. When he first saw the broken bust in 1951, it left an indelible impression. "It was as if he were alive," recalls Bothmer. "He is tense and poised. I knew that the bottom part would be cross-legged in the stylized posture of a scribe." Then, while combing through the archives at Paris' College de France, Bothmer came upon a yellowed 1934 photograph...
Tear Off the Binding. Anhalt and his wife split up after finishing The Pride and the Passion. But on his own, the talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...that the history of the Scottish war of independence must be considerably rewritten, and in this volume a Scottish professor has manfully attempted the task. He summarily deflates the theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly and glorious old story with new vigor and delight...