Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lemmon plays the lecherous landlord of the Centaur Apartments, a fellow who rents only to women and has a key for every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...
...Galbraith has it, "rules need only reflect the special requirements of the academic community--the quiet, good order and opportunity for undisturbed sleep that facilitate reflection and study. No effort need be made or should be made to protect indivividuals from the consequences of their own errors, indiscretions or passion." Perhaps when the College Deans recognize, in their practice if not their preachments, that such is the proper role o rules, further discussion of the rules can cease...
...Passionate Detachment. Bertrand Russell scoffed at Santayana's detached philosophy as the result of "emotional privation." It is true that Santayana was leary of emotion all his life, especially sexual emotion; he had come from a cold and broken family. But Biographer Cory shows how much passion can be put into a philosophy of detachment. Cory had been Santayana's private secretary and kept in touch with him for 25 years, and Santayana unburdened himself to Cory as to few others. Explaining why his philosophy seemed so cool, he once wrote: "Each passion or hope when alive sees...
...group of children move between dreams, Passion plays, and a sort of endless hiding game in which the state is "It." There are imaginary angels, Roman soldiery, Marthas and Marys galore and child tramps who may or may not be held to represent the Three Kings of the East...
...fading away under these tribulations, Keats fought on ferociously. Though he was only 5 ft. tall, he was strong-he once whipped a butcher boy twice his size because the boy had been tormenting a kitten. Keats was, in fact, an extraordinarily tough-minded fellow, full of energy and passion, who used poetry not as an escape from life but as a way of laying hands on it. His story, revealed not only in his poetry but in perceptive and engaging letters, is a remarkable record of an extraordinarily hungry and ambitious mind feeding on the world. "Why should...