Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGGRESSION, by Konrad Lorenz. In this fascinating natural history of violence, a celebrated Austrian naturalist traces the all-too-human passion of aggression to its roots in the lower phyla and finds there an inherent (and hopefully inherited) capacity to transform aggression into love...
...Gaulle returned to the political scene: "With a lover's passion and a surgeon's skill, Charles de Gaulle listens closely to the heartbeat of France...
...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...
Gertrud. The young art of film has produced few enough old masters, but any cinematic pantheon must make a place for Carl Dreyer, the Danish director whose reputation rests on a handful of somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam...
...obstacle to credibility in Dreyer's heroine is that her vaunted passion is so easily mistaken for stony inflexibility. As played by a glacial blonde, Nina Pens Rode, the lady appears mesmerized; a reference, for instance, to her "magic charm" becomes a droll unintentional joke. She describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...