Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capitals were wondering how to get news back to their papers (see col. 3), at home their editors were pondering how to play what news they got. Two conflicting impulses made the U. S. press sound like a man arguing with himself. One was a voice of passion urging him to show his indignation over Führer Hitler's aggression. The other was a voice of reason counseling detachment to keep...
...most news columns passion triumphed, while reason sat patiently wagging a finger on the editorial page. Typical was the tabloid New York Daily News. Like many another paper, the Daily News printed the French high command's terse, dry bulletins reporting the start of its drive against the German Westwall under headlines like a joyful yell...
...holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna's hometown...
...ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque swirl of uncountable figures. But Leonardo's passion for scientific precision and classical finish, in Kenneth Clark's opinion, checked, delayed and exhausted...
...Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left of civilization. . . . But the choice is still open. There is no truth in the plea that Hitler has gone too far to start over. By a single...