Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oberammergau, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, plans for next spring's revival of the world-famed Passion Play had hit a snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
...rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...
Most strollers in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art passed by Carpaccio's murky, golden Meditation on the Passion without noticing anything wrong. Those who looked twice saw that the label said Carpaccio but the picture was signed "Andreas Mantinea" (Mantegna...
...determined was Trollope to be considered a writing machine that he gave the readers of his Autobiography little chance to note the creative passion that made the machine run. And yet, the passion was paramount. "I have wandered alone," Trollope wrote, "among the rocks and woods, crying at (my characters') grief, laughing at their absurdities, and thoroughly enjoying their joy. ... I have lived with my characters. ... a gallery of them, and of all in that gallery I may say that I know the tone of the voice, and the color of the hair, every flame...