Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERA (NBC, 1-4 p.m.). Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung in English, is conducted by Alfred Wallenstein. Color...
Perhaps the strongest passion that can drive a historian to his typewriter is the urge to make amends to some great figure of the past who seems to have been unfairly denigrated. If the historian has himself helped previously to perpetuate the injustice, his new advocacy takes on the drama of a public conversion. These are the intellectual tensions that led to this reappraisal of Alexander Hamilton, and they make for unusually stimulating history...
Confused by his failure to "purify" Mother Joan and the rest of the passion-crazed nuns, the priest seeks the advice of an old rabbi, played by the same actor. To the Poles, Judaism is something dark and mysterious, and so in answer to the priest's wish to make everyone angels, the rabbi answers that we are all devils, that Satan created the world. The only force strong enough to change anything, capable of threatening the priests' droning ritual and the nunnery's newly-constructed wall, is the violent explosion of passion. The story begins because a former priest...
Even the priest becomes infected by Joan's passion--and it turns him into a horrifying criminal. Similarly the Polish man of action, corrupted to the point of insanity by the moral sickness of communism, chops his country to pieces. Afterward he can, like the priest, only shrug and murmur "I did it for your good...
...hard to say exactly where the story ends, however. For after all the passion and insanity there are still quiet tears of sympathy. The two nuns who have fought to escape, meet at last after their suffering and understand each other...