Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news last Donald F. Peters when Captains Woodman returned from Banning, Georgia conference last from S/Sgt to . The up-grading was immediately by Sergeant Peters' taking advantage of a special opening to application for Air Corps training, and he passion entrance mental examination on day this week, and the physical on Tuesday...
...been gravely ill during the period of bad news from Russia. Wrote the Colonel in Das Reich: "While the Führer's faith was unshakable ... he was not entirely a person of icy calm, for he suffered too much with his soldiers. . . . There is no genius without passion, and it would therefore have been unnatural if the Führer's will to master the crisis had not been here & there passionately expressed...
Brazil's desire for action poses a real problem to Brazil's allies, who lack the shipping to satisfy her yearning. But Brazilians have begun to feel strongly, and the U.S. cannot well ignore such expressions of passion as General Rabello's: "There must be no half measure: either defeat and the claws of the beast on our shoulders or victory and the unconditional surrender agreed upon in Casablanca and the possibility of reconstructing a just world for free...
While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...
...eager reaching for vivid incidents combine in Hervey Allen's rapid, narrative style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen...