Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
...carry on an unyielding struggle with the remnants of the old ideology and with undiscipline, laziness, lack of culture, bureaucracy and carelessness. . . . Producers and writers who suppose that the Soviet people want only entertainment and amusement . . . are hopelessly wrong. Soviet literature and art must produce works full of passion and deep thought, shot through with ideas of Soviet patriotism." Warned the leading article solemnly: "Workers of Soviet culture have complicated and responsible problems to solve...
...great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
Mark Hopkins, Williams' philosopher-president: "[His enthusiasm] continued for three score years with no abatement. . . . He was then 85 years old, but his [passion for rediscovery remained] as keen in questions which he had discussed with six generations of students. . . 'I missed only one day last year,' he said . . . 'and then the young men sent a committee asking me not to venture out, since the great storm that was raging made the streets nearly impassable...
...Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life. The big skating spectacles, considerably more thrilling than the thrills-&-chills story, leave hardly any time for tidying up all the plot complications of passion and homicide...