Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell. There were (see color) the funereal chords of his Hamlets, the lyric melancholy of some of his portraits, the emotional rhythms of his still lifes. History has cast Delacroix in the role of the great romanticist pitted against Ingres, France's great classicist. Yet for all his passion, he was a man of intellect who never surrendered to unbridled emotion. "Reason must control all our infirmities," he said...
...First there was the passion for pizzas, then the craze for coffeehouses. Now the country is flipping over flapjacks. Dotted across the land are some 300 specialized pancake palaces, of which 150 have risen, without benefit of leavening, in the past two or three years. Mostly chain-operated, the pancake shops are attractive, glittering clean, well designed, usually are located in suburban areas, where they get maximum family traffic. They offer the once-humble griddle cake, glorified and garnished in up to 37 astonishing varieties (e.g., crepe suzette, blintze, Swedish roll-up, royal Hawaiian). Fast growing Pancake Kitchens, Inc. this...
Shaw could be even more malicious to "the terrible Charlotte" herself. In an unsolicited bit of analysis, he once wrote her that she was "the lier-in-wait, the soul hypochondriac, always watching and dragging me into bondage, hating me and longing for me with the absorbing passion of the spider for the fly." There was neither close intellectual camaraderie nor sexual passion between them. But once they were married, Shaw grew to depend heavily on her protective, intelligent presence. A gifted hostess, Charlotte became as well an acute, sympathetic critic of her husband's work and even helped...
...playwright when they married in 1898, had already forsworn meat and liquor; after their marriage, he claimed, he also gave up sex. He had remained a virgin until he was 29 and even thereafter, said one disenchanted lady, "seemed to have no wish for and even to fear passion." Charlotte, for her part, had had a series of platonic love affairs, but invariably backed away when her suitors pressed too closely. She was deeply stirred by only three men in her life, and all three were extravagant egotists who demanded affection from women that they could not wholly reciprocate: Axel...
Ferment & Passion. Nourishing this flower of public education is one of the richest cities in the U.S. Beverly Hills (pop. 32,000) has families getting along on $10,000 or so. But much of it is a lotus land of rich brokers, industrialists, movie producers, and more psychiatrists per psyche than anywhere else in the country. Going for it is an assessed real-estate valuation of $239 million and the smallest ratio of schoolchildren to population (about 1 to 7) in California. As a result, it has the lowest school-tax rate of any sizable school district in the state...