Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the best thing about all the decorations and anecdotes that clutter the scene is a sense of humor, a sense of freedom, a suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some things are good, some bad. There is the almost haunting fact that one metal glob or set of blinking lights will somehow tug at the imagination, while another will not. That Savarin coffee can full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment...
Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets...
...looking toward the missing figure of God. The significance lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet window shows Christ's passion in five panels set in an interlace of jewel-like embroidery. Christ ascends toward heaven by vignettes-from betrayal, to entombment. Later, as the terror of the apocalypse grew wearying, the Virgin Mary became more prominent. The Christ Child's figure became relatively smaller and the Virgin...
...reaction to the passion and the bloodletting of World War I was a wave of idealistic pacifism. When World War II came 21 years later, the Allies went into it reluctantly, grimly and without elation, faced with an evil as obvious and inarguable as evil can ever be. Even scrupulous moralists agree that World War II was the closest thing to a just war in modern times. And yet, in retrospect, the means were horrifying. The saturation bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin were designed primarily to kill and demoralize civilians. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified...
...some, the desire to take politics away from the wicked became a passion and the Kinsellas were successful at it; first, the mayoralty and then the governorship was theirs. Two of the brothers, however, have a disagreement about the way in which the state is being run. The disagreement becomes semi-public, and, then, because of the paths each takes, dangerous to the safety of the family...