Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
...Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and other veterans lived in an "eternal political shop . . . mornings of dogged writing, all in our separate rooms; our ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband in a shower of caresses which lasted until the passion for work resumed its sway." In 1896, wrote Shaw (whom serious Beatrice Webb regarded as "a sprite"-a sort of undine with only a slender connection with the world of mortals): "The Fabian old gang can only afford a country house for our holiday because one of us [Sidney Webb...
...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...
...There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once his Gov 1 section man in the basement of New Lecture Hall, was talking about western thought institutions in Social Sciences 2a. They never had added up before, those lectures...
...Grenoble was filled by insipid maiden aunts and didactic priests and governesses. Young Henri's life was soon charged with the ideas and feelings that persisted until the day he died-a horror of the established order in family, church and state, and an insatiable appetite for romantic passion...