Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy as contrasted with the "practice" we are using words which derive their significance from the part they play in Aristotle's philosophy. As for politics, in view of recent events in Athens, one is reminded of the philosopher's suggestion that that is truly the Greeks' passion. Like the old Athenian ostracisms concerning Aristides and Themistocles we have watched Venizelos at one time exalted and now cast out; and again there is George II on his way to a country which put him into exile not so many years ago. To understand this Greek temperment, to understand much...
...goers liked best three lush canvases by the father of French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...
...Mark Sullivan, as nearly as any individual can be, is "an average American" of his generation. Hence an investigation of his life explains how a 1905 liberal can be a 1935 reactionary, and why many & many a U. S. oldster hates & fears the New Deal with more than partisan passion...
...know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life of a professional conspirator. Slowly she came to understand that a deep sense of futility was destroying the organization, embittering her lover's life. Despite all the self-sacrifice and passion of individual members, V. M. R. 0. was degenerating into a tool of the great powers, who employed it to harass rivals, reduced it to the level of hired gunmen. When
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...