Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clean Passion. Outstanding on the other side of the reconciliation movement was a blond, blue & starry eyed young German drawing teacher, Otto Abetz. Under his leadership, the two countries exchanged students, published a Franco-German magazine at Stuttgart. Abetz attended a vacation camp in the Black Forest where French and German youths pledged themselves to pacifism and eternal friendship...
Otto Abetz met Luchaire, became his friend, married Luchaire's secretary, Suzanne de Brouckere. In those days, Abetz loved France with a clean passion. The passion endured even while, on both sides of the Rhine, the foundations of rapprochement were crumbling. Hitler, backed by money from Banker von Schroeder and others, had come to power...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
Hero in Spectacles. Lloyd's career is the story of the triumph of sobriety. In 1917 he conceived the movie character which was to make him a fortune. Before that he had been an average American boy with a passion for the stage and magic tricks, who grew up to be a struggling young comedian in one-reel movie farces. At first he played a ragged, mustached character called Lonesome Luke, which he now admits was a poor imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Then he bought a pair of glassless horn-rimmed spectacles (his eyesight is fine) and studied...
Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...