Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters that Brown-Beasley has written--and liberally distributed--in his attempt to be rehired suggest the passion of his feelings and his unwillingness to squeeze his criticism into polite legalese. To Gibson he wrote: "Although you hold a graduate degree in theology...you are not, and I must repeat are not, a 'religious' man in any sense meaningful to the overwhelming majority of the duties incumbent upon you as director of the Office of Fiscal Services. As Ortega put it so succinctly in his essay on Concord and Liberty, the word 'religio' does not derive from religare, to bind...
...many talents at work was the same essential Strehler as in Macbeth-but what a difference! It was as if he had taken his lead from the Figaro overture, that barely perceptible rustle of strings and woodwinds that swells to incandescence. All was succinct and imbued with restrained passion...
...first shops for japonaiserie had been set up in Paris in the 1870s. Moreover, the designers of the Belle Epoque seized on the reverence for ephemeral nature in Japanese art, importing a fresh iconography of fugitive things: mist, shivering grasses, winding shoots, morning glories and insects. Nowhere is their passion for the impalpable better expressed than in the dragonfly lamp, each wing vibrating with red and amber glass, designed for Tiffany by Clara Driscoll around...
...capacious enough to absorb the bad with the good. And his virtues have never been on better display. He can capture American speech and cage it on the page without loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...
...with his partner in crime, who is also his girl friend. These two are not even glimpsed until late in the film, where they reveal themselves to be casual about the killing, past the point of indifference. Pop is not a figure of considerable passion either, and The Clockmaker concerns the tentative, ironic reconciliation between father and son, who are finally united by their moral blankness. It is a parched, parochial movie...