Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summoned home after a 20-year absence to underwrite these marriages, Andrew is most concerned that Barbara should be squandering her high passion on the Salvation Army. He agrees to see her shelter if she and Cusins will visit his cannon works. At the shelter, we meet sycophantic derelicts, ruffians and pitiably broken men. But it is Undershaft who nonchalantly breaks Barbara's heart, and opens her eyes. He signs a check for ?5,000, matching a sum from a notorious distiller named Bodger, so that the Salvation Army shelters may stay open. When the Army's general...
Pratt meanwhile riffles through the "picture palace" of her memory, superimposing an exotic, lapidary interior life on the grainy black and white surface of a public image. Dominant tenant in the palace is Maude's brother Qrlando, the grand, unconsummated passion of her life. Maude, in fact, has only consummated once, in an unbelievable case of mistaken identity. Thereafter, she is the professional virgin, indistinguishable from her Speed Graphic with its ever renewable unexposed plates...
...horseshoe's toss from both Aqueduct and Belmont. She was educated by nuns, at her Catholic mother's request and with her Jewish father's consent, and sent off to Virginia's very white-glove Marymount College. She inherited her father's fierce passion for horses, even spending college weekends trackside at Laurel, Bowie or Pimlico while classmates went off to football games. Hirsch did his best to insulate his daughter from the touts, railbirds and assorted other lowlifes who populated his world. "Dad doesn't allow me to hang around the barns...
...Javits, for example, decided not to budge. Adding up the votes, Church realized that seven legislators, including such unchanging anti-sale Senators as New Jersey's Clifford Case, still opposed the deal. He decided to join them. Said one committee member: "He was frightened by the passion of the pro-Israel speeches." Said an angry Carter to staff members: "The next time you get a commitment, let's get some earnest money...
Despite the Nazi Holocaust, the Oberammergau Passion Play, Bavaria's decennial Catholic folk pageant, has gone on using an 1860 text that portrays Jews as Shylocks and Christ killers. Since the Second Vatican Council's denunciation of antiSemitism, however, a group of townspeople led by Head Woodcarver Hans Schwaighofer has been agitating to dump the lurid script. Last year Schwaighofer's group staged a trial run of a 1750 version that makes Satan the heavy and, like the New Testament, portrays the Jews as divided over Jesus. In February the town council voted to use that version...