Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nicol Williamson plays, with explosive passion, John Osborne's portrait of a London solicitor who, resentful of being remade in the image of the computer, symbolizes buffeted humanity in the 20th century...
...Passion. For centuries, village priests have used instructional dolls to teach children Bible stories, and Girard's collector's eye spotted one particularly vivid scene: a depiction of bearded Noah and Mrs. Noah presiding over an ark of candy-colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced...
...Italian-raised, English-educated Alexander Girard, 61, doll collecting is a passion that began in the 1920s, when he bought some Russian dolls in a London shop. The complete Girard Foundation collection today consists of some 100,000 items, including doll houses, and other memorabilia from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. To install "The Magic of a People," Girard worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for three months. Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a New Mexico friend, helped by selecting and installing the rocks used in landscaping...
...love, in the early novels (Crome Yellow, Antic Hay and Point Counter Point), it meant sex. And sex to Huxley was disgusting man at his most disgusting-something that he approached, as that prophet of passion D. H. Lawrence put it, with the "desperate courage of repulsion." The poem attributed to one of Huxley's characters in Ape and Essence is unmistakably in the author's voice...
Author Nourissier, after all, was not alone in postulating a France given over to the duller virtues of domestic peace and prosperity under De Gaulle. Indeed, he regretted the situation: from such young people, he asks at one point, "Can we hope for vigor, depth, distrust and passion...