Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced into the unnatural constraint of a nunnery, an artificially "angelic" costume, it becomes crazed and anarchic...
...swing softly, "to resonate, man." The gentle, yet persuasive, rhythm of Gov. 122b, his course covering African modernization, shows that he has succeeded. Naturally, as a "New Negro," Kilson is impassioned, knowing that answers to questions asked by his ancestors are now "blowing on the wind." But he sees passion as only part of his job; as a member of the academy, he must formulate the right questions and pin down specific answers. "The old horns of commitment and detachment set up no imposing dilemmas to the way I live or think. Being a Negro in the academic Establishment...
...Erskine Passion Flowers in Italy...
...TROJAN WOMEN. This masterly revival of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and a sense of cruel inner hurt...
...nursery, but mother keeps it clean," said one student. Another student, mounting the steps of the administration building, quoted Harvard Philosopher Geodfrey Olive, saying, "The greatest enemy of morality is not passion but insensitivity, not licentiousness but self-deception. By this standard the decision of the Regents is essentially immoral...