Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirty, Filthy, Healthy. The same experimentation, the same passion for change, permeates London's theater, which is currently the best anywhere in the world. The theater is one of the strongest cultural contributors to the liveliness of London today, brimming with new ideas and with new young people who are nonetheless working within a long and powerful creative tradition. Says Peter Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company: "We are in a theater that is front-page news. We are denounced as subversive, immoral, filthy -it's all terribly healthy." John Osborne is one of the world...
Unsynchronized Passion. Hemingway himself was, of course, his own greatest creation-the archetype of all Hemingway heroes. A big, burly man with heavy shoulders and hugely muscled arms, he was 48 and still radiating an aura of fun and well-being when he and Hotchner first met in Cuba in 1948. For the next 13 years they were inseparable friends. Although he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active...
...acquired on a safari (possibly true). What does ring completely true is Hemingway's comment in 1948 about Marlene Dietrich: "The thing about the Kraut and me is that we have been in love since 1934 . . . but we've never been to bed. Victims of unsynchronized passion...
...Reason Why. Eurofinance has lately broadened its operations, now gets a quarter of its revenue from advising institutions that buy European stocks and from acting as a consultant on corporate mergers. Still, unmasking economic truth remains its passion. Not long ago, a Eurofinance researcher discovered why Italian statistics on heavy electrical engineering came out three months after the French figures and usually showed about half the French total:. the Italians, having no production figures, simply guessed after seeing the French reports...
...Boiling Air Force Base, "I went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer, I am pleased most that altogether the helicopter has saved more than...