Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no affectation about his passion for his job. Three years ago, at the launching of the America, which he designed for the U.S. Lines, officials looked everywhere among the gathered celebrities for William Francis. He had vanished. They finally spotted him. Bored by speechmaking, he was perched like a bald eagle at the top cf a scaffolding to get a better view of his ship when she hit the water...
...poor Poland that they placed their faith. Poland's dictator. General Edward Smigly-Rydz, bravely declared: "We shall win by the Holy Passion of our Lord. He will lead us to victory.'' Poland's passionate Catholics and her skull-capped Jews, marked by tens of thousands for Nazi execution, resolutely dug in for the defense of their country. But the world outside felt in its bones that Poland was digging its own grave...
Thus, two months after the spies had landed on Long Island and Florida beaches, one month after their trial began, ended the biggest spy case in U.S. history. The U.S. still knew less about the case than about any one of its daily, tawdry crimes of passion. The record was sealed until after...
...simple nature that is receptive soil for the seeds of jealousy planted by Iago. Watching Robeson's performance, one can see this jealousy blight the tenderness of his love at the start as in his description of his love to the Duke of Venice, and develop into the towering passion which drives him at the climax to the murder of his wife. To portray the power of this jealousy which is destroying Othello's soul, Robeson does not rely upon his magnificent voice alone. To this he adds a remarkable depth of emotion which is essential in making Shakespearean tragedies...
Tragedy, love, passion, characterization, sentimentality, were taboo; "scale and violence" were all that most of the native plays had, and about all that were left of foreign plays, once they were adapted. "Hamlet was played for the murder, the ghost, the burial; Macbeth for the witches, the sleepwalking scene, the knocking at the gate." Some plays "were hardly plays at all but omnibus inclusions of the latest news, the latest partisan arguments." The drama was half operatic, exceedingly oratorical, and stagy oratory was perhaps the greatest and most popular of the arts...