Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passion, My Delight." However gratifying Sam's laissez-faire attitude may be to his editors and publishers, outsiders either find it confusing or don't believe that it exists. The conventional picture of a chain publisher is of a man who uses his papers like a megaphone to extend the range of his own voice. Because Newhouse does not take a public stand on the issues of the day, because he does not force his personal convictions into his papers, because he has no interest more consuming than the solvency of his properties?and because he automatically becomes an "outsider...
...Sybarite's Passion. As far as historians know. Cardinal Wolsey was his own chief architect, and he certainly spared neither his talent nor his energies. When he had finished, Hampton Court probably covered eight acres of land, contained 1,000 rooms, was the largest single structure built in England since the days of the Romans. The cardinal employed 2,500 artisans and laborers, filled the place with ornaments and vessels of gold and silver, covered the beds and furnishings with the costliest silks. He had, in fact, a Sybarite's passion for finery...
...Ministry of Works' chief restorer, Alistair Stewart, thinks that the 16th century paintings of the Passion were commissioned by Henry. Other panels were covered with a blackened 17th century overpainting of inferior quality. It was when the restorers X-rayed these for the 16th century work beneath that they found traces of an even earlier work. Stewart attributes the 16th century paintings to one Lambert Lombard, who, in blotting out the paintings already on the canvas, used a coat of solid color that actually preserved at least part of them. The restorers feel they have uncovered as much...
...previous one. He noted down a good deal of the comic byplay; but, just as certainly, he intended the performance to be decked out with a lot of improvised farce, in the tradition of the Italian commedia dell'arte, for which French Baroque court circles had an overwhelming passion...
...disturbed the budgerigar. "I'm not an artistic sort of chap," he says forthrightly. "Don't understand pictures at all." He sold the Rembrandt to keep up his 14,000-acre estate on which he farms, raises sheep, cattle and daffodils. The daffodils are his real passion. He grows 200 varieties, and says with greater pride than when speaking of his art collection: "I don't know where you could find more beautiful daffodils than in our grounds...