Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passion and Resurrection. When, under cover of wartime secrecy, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, slipped across the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. (it was his first visit), there was no Protestant churchman who could have impressed Americans more. For the Archbishop was a symbol of one great Protestant church which, under the impact of war, had suffered a passion and predicated a resurrection...
Readers who have time for only one of these books must choose either 1) to be bored by an author who elaborates a fancy plot without turning it into a moving story, or 2) to be stirred up by an authoress who turns a passion inside out on every page. It is a choice between cold tripe and hot tripe...
...Essayist William Hazlitt was in despair. He claimed that his friends were betraying their revolutionary principles, that Napoleon was "the best hope of the Cause of the Peoples of the earth." When he mixed Napoleonic politics with a tumultuous passion for a local lass, the Lake District peasantry beat Hazlitt up. The advocate of revolution fled to Coleridge's house for fresh shoes. Then he stumbled on to Wordsworth's house, where he shook off his pursuers, borrowed enough money to take him home to London, where direct action was a merely literary theory...
Pierre Monteux rules the San Francisco Symphony like a good-natured, grandfatherly but absolute Czar. Only one person dares dispute his authority: Mme. Monteux, who broods over the symphony with a maternal passion that is sometimes embarrassing. Not long ago all the bald-headed musicians in the orchestra suddenly blossomed out with toupees. In this connection, Mme. Monteux's name was widely mentioned. Everyone agreed the effect was interesting...
WASPs, who come from all walks of life, have one thing in common: a passion for planes. Their chief is glamorous, dashing Jacqueline Cochran, ex-beauty shop operator, wife of Promoter Floyd Odium. Mrs. Love, ex-test pilot, is now a WASP executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...