Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach: Arias (Marian Anderson, contralto, with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides). The mighty-voiced contralto, holding herself down to a small orchestra, is not at her best. Included are arias from three cantatas, the Christmas Oratorio and the Passion According to St. Matthew. Performance: fair...
...into the saloons, gambling joints and dance halls of suburban Burnham, Stickney and Cicero. He built his own army. By 1924 he commanded 700 men, was making $100,000 a week and lusting for more. But Dion O'Banion, a murderous Irishman with a sweet smile and a passion for flowers, stood...
...entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand; by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights, but for the souls of men. . . . From now on men will divide themselves into two religions-understood again as surrender to an absolute. The conflict of the future is between the absolute...
...University's traditional and understandable passion for anonymity and the internal solution of her problems has long been considered a happy notion by exuberant students who throw their weight around, restrained only by the admonitory clucking of Yard cops. But in playing it cozy by failing to publicize the extent and frequency of the Parkhurst thefts, and recommend workable counter-steps, the University may well have cut off student noses to save itself face...
...poetry, as in everything else, reason should be the controlling principle. That is what Professor Yvor Winters of Stanford believes, and with passion. Winters has a sensitiveness to poetic effects that lifts his criticism of the late poet Edwin Arlington Robinson far out of the academic class...