Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women terrifyingly caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...
...Responsible Parenthood." From the time of St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn" (meaning, with passion), Catholic teaching on marriage has implied that sexual pleasure was a reward that God gave to married couples for producing children. The canon law of the church describes the primary end of marriage as the procreation and education of children; the mutual love of husband and wife and what the code grimly refers to as "the allaying of concupiscence" are essential but secondary ends. Many a priest still preaches that a house-cramming brood is the goal...
...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...
...spells of fever and six of burning." They have only to appear, magnolia fresh, on the piazza, and the rustle of death stirs in the wistaria trees. His lovers can find no rest, so tormented are they by such archaic inner struggles as lust v. honor, or passion v. philosophy. For his part, Ransom allows neither them nor the world any ease this side of the grave...
...rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when poetry was thought to treat directly of such things as Truth and Beauty. When he accepted...