Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once upon a time you might have thought that Sophocles wrote Antigone to describe the peculiar burial practices in ancient Greece. But in the new version of the play, The Passion of Antigona Perez by Puerto Rican Luis Rafel Sanchez, which director Vincente Castro brings to the Loeb Mainstage March 3-6 and 9-12, the determined girl who wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place...
...Yale Professor William Nordhaus, 35. The three should make a compatible team. Philosophically Gramley and Nordhaus, like Schultze, can be expected to argue for vigorous federal action to combat high unemployment. Personally they also ought to get along well with the boss inasmuch as all three share a passion for outdoor sports: Schultze for backpacking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the aristocratic Gramley for polo and fox hunting. Nordhaus for cross-country skiing...
Social kissing takes much of its inspiration from show business, where for years an oscular promiscuity has prevailed. Kissing appeals to show people in part because it is inherently more theatrical than, say, handshaking or nodding. Kisses can be invested with any emotion from the most fervid passion to a hydrochloric malice. They play well. Singer Linda Ronstadt explains it in another way: "The business consists of people who are so desperately insecure and lonely, and they have to have contact: we're all affection junkies...
...lifestyle traditionally associated with their profession: dressed in black, they often went hungry and struggled to get their work published. It was at this time that Neruda wrote and was able to publish Twenty Poems of Love and an Ode on Desperation, a melancholy collection filled with torment and passion. Neruda would later refer to the poems as the expression of his love affair with Santiago...
...French government's Department of Historic Monuments finished a three-year restoration program on three of Chartres's most famous 12th century windows, all on the west wall above the main entrance of the cathedral: The Tree of Jesse, The Childhood of Christ and The Passion. The windows were taken down, disassembled piece by piece and sent to a government laboratory outside Paris for testing, then to a Paris atelier for cleaning. The grime was removed with cotton swabs wet with an aqueous solution called E.D.T.A. On went a coat of Viacryl, a synthetic polyurethane resin meant...