Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forth -- vicariously -- from the fourteenth floor of William James to find out just what makes London London, Paris Paris, and New York New York. Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of Social Psychology, and the four members of his junior tutorial will spend the semester combining, in Milgram's words, "a passion for scientific measurement with an exquisite perception" of the elements that make up a city's atmosphere...
...Oddly, there is a shortage of clearly defined issues between the adversaries. Though they have exchanged many words over Viet Nam, both support the basic U.S. commitment there. Taft preaches "fiscal responsibility," while Gilligan argues that federal spending should, if anything, be increased; but this difference has stirred little passion in the district...
...editorial page, which reflects the paper's nondoctrinaire Democratic liberalism. Under James Russell Wiggins, a onetime Post managing editor, a group of scholarly writers achieve a force and clarity that stand out in sharp contrast with the inconclusive, ambiguous prose of most of their competitors. Combining a passion for civil liberties and humanitarian legislation with an appreciation of the U.S. need to assert its power overseas, Post editorialists have often done a better job of explaining President Johnson's Far Eastern policies than the President himself. Without a trace of truculence, they have argued the propositions that, like...
From the eddying hues of his scenes done in Yellowstone Park to the evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...
...plot a 19th century French bedroom farce, in setting a Scottish castle, Cheval projects the true tone of Sagan's languorous existentialism-a tone that has been characterized as boredom raised to the level of a passion. What's more, it projects her wit to a new and unexpected height. Amid a tangle of French fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying...