Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has always deeply cherished the profitable British film market. Recently, it was profoundly shocked to discover that its passion was in danger of becoming one-sided. Well-heeled Britons like Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank (TIME, Dec. 20) have appeared ready & willing to break Hollywood's near monopoly of their home market. Last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not napping; it was spending plenty of cash to expand in Britain...
...without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting imaginary orchestras. A more humdrum guest was Florence Sitwell, who ran a "home for fallen women," held "quiet Sunday afternoons in the garden" for local barmaids...
...became young Holmes's great passion. In the course of his law studies he visited John Stuart Mill-whose philosophy came closest to a jurisprudence based not on precedents but on what Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time...
...thing Mr. Boolba made clear to his interviewer from the start. Art was his concern, his hobby, his passion, and at this particular sitting, the substance of his interview. According to him, the purpose of Art is to interpret things as they are in nature. In order to be true Art, Art must be functional. It must not only reflect the people and their way of life, but its messages and meanings must be available and understandable to these very people. Of Salvador Dali, Mr. Boolba has this to say in his usual forthright manner: "His works...
Perhaps 20 years ago Maugham could not have written about either mysticism or Americans with quite so straight a face. For all his life Maugham has endeavored to write skillfully and never in passion. Now age and art have refined his feelings to the vanishing point. The Razor's Edge is the crowning triumph of that utterly dispassionate virtuosity to which he has always aspired-a persuasive as well as an entertaining book, by a man of 70 who is still "of the earth, earthy," about a young man who has found a faith...