Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal activists. "I decided to practice law in a large representative city such as Cleveland," Calkins wrote in his class's 25th reunion report, "on the hunch that in this way I could find effective and independent involvement with whatever turned out to be the action and passion of our time...
...heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion released, he murmured glassy-eyed, "She is more beautiful than Cleopatra...
Pirandello's characters stand on constantly shifting planes of reality. When the Stepdaughter (Lise Hilboldt) and the Father (Robert Stattel) see "real" actors imitating the gestures and words they had used in moments of true passion, they initially cannot recognize themselves. When they do, they greet the realization with both laughter and despair. Mirrors and lighting (designed by Michael Yeargan and Jennifer Tipton, respectively) make such scenes visually exciting and intellectually stimulating...
...election was to be the first step toward removing the military from politics, under the provisions of the constitutional reforms approved by referendum in 1982. In fact, Ardito Barletta was hand-picked by the military because of his solid economic background. Drab and bureaucratic, he failed to arouse much passion during the campaign...
...such works as Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten, which was premiered in Stuttgart in March. Glass describes Act V of the CIV IL warSas his "romantic" opera. The repetitive rhythms and melodic figurations that are his trademark are still present, but the score is suffused with an Italianate warmth and passion that explicitly recall Verdi in some passages. The most dramatic of these occurs when Garibaldi, who has been sitting in a box placidly viewing the action onstage, suddenly interrupts to deliver an aria about his life that has the fervor of Di quella pira from Il Trovatore. Whatever the ultimate...