Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With his usual devastating honesty, Stendhal recorded in his autobiography (The Life of Henri Brulard) that he had loved his mother "with a mad passion"-"as criminal as possible" and indistinguishable from the love he felt for his mistresses in later years. His hatred of his chief rival was so violent that even in middle age he generally referred to his unfortunate father as "the bastard...
...immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less than two weeks the divertisement will be over two hundred miles away...
...order that this may be accomplished, there must be an act of faith in which millions of families speaking many languages must consciously take part. We all know that the two world wars through which we have passed arose out of a vain passion of a newly united Germany to play a dominating part in the world...
...enemies of the Catholic Church ... the followers of the materialistic communism . . . have in our Croatia exterminated with fire and sword priests and the more eminent of the faithful. . . . The number of dead priests is 243; 169 are in prison. We admit that some priests, blinded by national or party passion, sinned . . . in a way for which they must render account to lay courts. . . . We do not intend to defend the guilty...
...thing about biography, not a God damned Thing.'" Author Greenslet knows enough, at any rate, to have written a highly readable series of biographical sketches. In tone they are semi-official and rather adoring; apparently Lowells are rarely inspired by anything less than noble impulses and a passion for good works, though now & then they may make "mistakes." But at that, they are an interesting lot. Among them...