Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUTHER, by John Osborne, seethes with the inner violence of a religious passion, but stutters rather than stirs when it comes to theological insights. As Luther, Albert Finney struggles tortuously and awesome ly for his truth...
Dallas in particular, Texas in general, and the U.S. as a whole was in an agony of self-reproach. Somehow the conflicts of political and sociological difference, which are always bitter and are historically endowed with passion, had been translated into something unique to this day and age-a climate in which, and only in which, the assassination of President Kennedy could have occurred...
...Thanksgiving message President Johnson made a great point of it, urged U.S. citizens "to close down the poison springs of hatred and intolerance and fanaticism." Texas' Governor John Connally, still in bed, said: "I think we all must suffer for a lack of tolerance, lack of understanding, the passion, the prejudice, the hate and the bigotry which permeates the whole society in which we live and which manifested itself here on Friday...
Bewitched by Wagner. The passion ate and sentimental pride Münchners have always taken in their opera house stiffened Opera Director Rudolf Hartmann's determination that it be rebuilt in conformity with its original style. Anticipating the likelihood of war damage, Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
...postcard from him with Oscar Wilde's famous line "For each man kills the thing he loves," the girl sensibly fled to England and finally emigrated to California. Apollinaire in turn sat down to write La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, a long poem that swings between lyrical passion and harsh, direct descriptive talk in a way which was to put a lasting mark on modern French poetry. The nights in Paris all drink gin And fall asleep with their streetlights on. Trolley cars are mad machines To make green sparks and scream like queens...