Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether he was or not can never be shown conclusively. Author Weintraub thinks that Beardsley's tuberculous condition and his consuming passion for work left him little time and less stamina for dalliance. Bernard Shaw shrewdly noted that Beardsley was "boyish enough to pose as a diabolical reveler in vices of which he was innocent...
...quality of competition at the quadrennial Pan-American games rarely requires U.S. athletes to do anything more exhausting than show up - except when it comes to baseball. To Latin Amer icans, baseball is a passion, not just a pastime, as the U.S. team learned last week at Winnipeg when it lost its very first game 4-3, and to Cuba at that. But by week's end the embarrassment was eased by the brilliant performances of U.S. swimmers-not so much be cause they won practically everything in sight (nine of eleven events), but because they demolished three world...
...form of a Roman camp called Aelia Capitolina. It was not until after A.D. 313, in fact, that Jerusalem won back its old name, when the Emperor Constantine and his Christian mother, Helena, began to build new churches at the shrines marking the major events in Christ's Passion and death...
...Discovery is mostly my mania," he wrote. His biographer answers him back: "Burton's real passion was not for geographical discovery, but for the hidden in man, for the unknowable and therefore the unthinkable. What his Victorian compatriots called unclean, bestial or Satanic, he regarded with almost clinical detachment. In this respect he belongs more properly...
...first ("Movimento tranquillo") seemed to be written for violin solo with string accompaniment, which might be a function either of the composer's intentions of the energetic playing of Mr. Galimir. The second movement ("Adagio ed Espressivo") exploited the high register of the violin, giving the music a strongly passionate flavor; after a while, however, the emphasis on extreme registers began to wear (at least on these untutored ears) and passion passed over into hysteria. The last movement, ("Allegro appasionato.") was a curiously dance-like finale with its predominantly triple meter (this, too, is a bit of heritage from...