Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emotional mass-meetings, with all the concomitants of hecklers, amateur witlings, and plain fools, can solve nothing. Emotions of War must be fought with emotions of peace, it is true, but peace, without a strong alliance with Reason, can never hope to prevail against the master of passion-lashers, the greatest demagogue of them all-the spirit of the parade and of the brass band...
Essence of Fascism. If the oft-told life of Benito Mussolini and the much-headlined events of his 13 years as Dictator are not easily recalled in an ordered pattern, passion is to blame. Since 1922 nobody has been able to write impartially about the man who made Dictatorship what it is today. Currently the nearest approach to such an analysis is Mussolini's Italy by Dr. Herman Finer of the University of London, a useful work since its author has just spent a year in Italy and tried to be fair (Holt...
...equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited...
...needle work or Japanese history. Supposing also (this is unlikely but simply for argument's sake) that there is a Philosophy section man who is also interested in bee-propagation. How are the twenty sophomores going to learn that their secret you is also the burning but dark passion of the section man? Unless one recognizes in the other that futile look peculiar to those with unusual hobbies nothing more is going to be done to further these legitimate interests...
...Spark" is another Gaumont-British production built on the life of a great musician, this time Vincenzo Bellini. He has the misfortune to be portrayed by Phillips Holmes, any doubts of whose utter inability to act will be dispelled as he is seen going through the throes of tender passion, man of purpose, and artistic intensity...