Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main problem which mother and son share is not the loneliness of their spirits but rather the desires of their flesh. In long, detailed passages, Dahlberg reveals his own passion, his adolescent frustration and its eventual satisfaction. In theory, these pages should resemble the autobiographies of such authors as Lawrence, Mailer and even Rousseau, all of whom describe their own sex lives in minute detail. Yet such comparisons are singularly inadequate. And the reason for this, the difference between Dahlberg's book and other autobiographies, explains the power of Because I Was Flesh...
Even as far back as St. Augustine, autobiographers who have written of passion have approached this task with missionary zeal. Frequently they feel they have discovered the Truth about sex. And frequently this Truth can be summarized in one of two ways: to such enlightened authors sex is either the symbol of all our society's problems or the answer to them. Thus Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer uses-sex to symbolize action in a world where all action is hopeless though despair must be avoided. On the other hand, in Women in Love D.H. Lawrence declares that only...
...time since last spring. Last week, Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo reported that Italy's balance of payments has switched from a monstrous $1.2 billion deficit last year to a surplus of $535 million for the past five months. At the same time, Parliament acted to curb the national passion to buy on credit by passing a law requiring 25% down and two-year terms on installment purchases. Best of all, the lira has been revivified...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light...
...regarded as "an accursed people" and acknowledges Christianity's roots in the faith of the Old Testament. But instead of clearing the Jews of deicide, it says that sermons and catechisms should "refrain from accusing the Jews of our times of what was perpetrated during the Passion of Christ." The declaration also prays for the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, and has been expanded to include a word of good will for other non-Christian faiths, notably Islam...