Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friendship, began to flourish. Yolanda King, 27, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., and Attallah Shabazz, 24, the daughter of Malcolm X (Shabazz is her mother's name), found that they had more in common than famous fathers in the civil rights movement: both have an abiding passion for the theater. With roles for black actresses scarce, they pooled talents and backgrounds to write and star in Stepping into Tomorrow, a play they have been performing on the road for school and civic groups for the past three years. Although Tomorrow draws mostly on the problems of today...
With luck, more stumbling blocks in the form of congressional animosity will clutter the Administration's path, forcing it to the pragmatic realization that a change in course is necessary. Salvador seems one such potential trip wire. This little book has just the right mix of passion and reflection to get people angry, and then make them think. That's really...
When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...
...Koestler was never able to derive much joy from the past tense. He had seen his books vilified by Hitler's and Stalin's minions. Now he wished to hear no more about them. "The bitter passion has burned itself out," he decided. "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change...
Rock has produced a few top piano thumpers - Fats Domino, Huey Smith - but none burned with the passion of Jerry Lewis. Sam Phillips, who had started Sun Records in Memphis, sold the contract of his major star, Elvis Presley, to RCA in 1955 for the then unheard-of sum, for a new singer, of $35,000, and he was shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down...