Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the record. Writes O'Connell: "Toscanini loves no one. On his sleeve he wears not his heart but his spleen. . . . I think Mr. Toscanini has had a baneful effect on musical beliefs and standards in America. . . . His conception [of Bach's St. Matthew Passion] revealed him as a man of exquisite, ineffable, and almost infallible vulgarity-a peculiarly Italianate and melodramatic and theatrical vulgarity, exposed in a variety of musical horrors...
...Since the war," complained a 22-year-old Tokyo girl, "we Japanese have been feeling no passion in our lives." Last week, the citizens of Tokyo felt a sort of patriotic passion for Konoshin Furuhashi, 19, a muscular, close-cropped literature student at Nippon University. In the all-Japan swimming championships at Meiji Shrine pool, Furuhashi thrashed out the 400-meter free style in 4:38.4, three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally...
...under these comic collegiate clothes the hearts of even the careerists and the drunkards beat with romance, and could be stirred to a passion of loyalty at a hint that our college . . . was not the best in the world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...
Says Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses...
Once an editor of England's Architectural Review and author of two Shell guidebooks to the English counties (at the moment he is doing another guide to Buckinghamshire), Betjeman is a deliberately "provincial" poet. He has an equal passion for industrial cities and for gaslit towns, entered by bicycle and artfully explored. In his prose Betjeman defends the dignity of places that humorists have poked fun at and social critics have deplored...