Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neill had thought of it first, the theme of "The Sacred Flame," now at the Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...
Among the short and violent episodes which supplied the spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...
SOME CALL IT LOVE-Rian James -King ($2). The gentle passion among Manhattan racketeers...
...tenths of each weekly letter is written by Editor Kiplinger himself. He is 42, tall, sandy-haired, with a trim mustache. For several years he worked for Associated Press in Washington, quit in 1920 to research foreign trade for a bank. His task of making weekly reports and his "passion for telling people the 'innards' of things." prompted him to try circulating an impartial analytical letter to businessmen. In addition to his general news letter he publishes a fortnightly on agriculture ($25 for six months), a fortnightly on taxes ($15 per year...
Some of Huxley's notes: The Nature of Love, Physical Passion, Old Age, Progress, Money, Comic Poetry, Obscurity in Poetry. God, Death. Authors quoted range from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish...