Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent, the public's passion for black holes is part of the faddish craze for the likes of parapsychology, the occult, UFOs, thinking plants, von Daniken and other pseudoscientific hokum. Says one astrophysicist: "For some people, black holes seem to be the Bermuda Triangles of space...
...Viet Nam seasoned Pignedoli for a higher post: in 1967 Paul named him secretary to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, a position in which he helped to elevate native priests and bishops. Now, as president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, Pignedoli can still indulge a passion for travel. He has visited 105 countries, preaching warm sermons on prayer and photographing everything. During these trips, he has built up an astonishing worldwide correspondence with more than 6,000 people -many of them young-who write to him in Rome, addressing him "Dear Sergio." Though nurtured by Paul...
Stoltzman, in fact, came to the classical clarinet by the unorthodox route of jazz. During his childhood in San Francisco, he and his father, a railroad man with a passion for the tenor sax, would im- provise hymns at Presbyterian Sunday school. "We'd play the main-line melody and then just float in and out of harmonies," he recalls. "That freedom not to play all the notes exactly as they were written was the beginning to me of making music...
Instead we have a new version, set in 1911 and entitled The Passion of Dracula, fashioned by Bob Hall and David Richmond, men with more experience in acting and directing than in writing. It opened in New York last September and is still running at the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater. The New York director, Peter Bennett, has repeated his assignment with the newly assembled cast here, as have Allen Cornell (set and lighting) and Jane Tschetter (costumes...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown--remember how you got sick of Peanuts about ten years ago? Well, here they are again, in all their revolting cuteness. At the Charles Playhouse Cabaret, Warrenton St., Boston. The Passion of Dracula--you got it. At the Spingold Theater, Brandeis University, Waltham. Friday at 8, Saturday at 5, 9, Sunday...