Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whimsy & Logic. Her passion for music as entertainment's lowest common denominator extends to public service programs. Many of WNEW's awards have been won by plugging good causes with jingles and catchy tunes. "Lull them with music," says Tudie Judis, "and then nail them with something quick about the charity...
...Open Road. One day, consumed with the U.S. passion for setting records, he decided to hit the road and crack at least one safe in every state. Up to then he had worked in 15 states all told. "I used to be a great one for two and three and four a night," boasted Parry. "One night I made them 205 miles apart." He made as little as 55? and as much as $26,000 in a haul. Having widened his field, he was in New Hampshire with only Vermont to go when he decided to pass up Vermont...
...every seat at $2.40, the Folger's small capacity left it $1,500 short of expenses. But it was a critical hit in the Washington press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy, for all its elephantine gait and structure and its lack of narrative sense, had the freshness of its tough Chicago South Side material, observed with accuracy and set down with passion. Since then, Farrell has been dishing up the same old Irish stew without so much as adding a fresh onion. The Road Between shuttles between Chicago and the leftish intellectual world of New York in 1932. Aspiring Writer Bernard Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road...
...Model School, Shaw thinks, that marked him for life. Out of its humiliations, he suddenly conceived "the birth of moral passion." Ignominy made him stand up for the first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...