Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older women and young ones. But Sabina, Stefa, Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held like a lover. ("I realized," he recalls of one liaison, "that in moments of desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement...
...particularly in the quiet opening and closing sections, and the solo wind passages were impeccably performed. But too often the idyllic atmosphere of the music was disrupted by unnecessary heaviness in the lower instruments, and Wilkins's cautious, fastidious approach to the work detracted from its Wagnerian sweep and passion. Hence, although the performance was as precise as one could wish, it might have been more inspiring. As an ambitious attempt to perform a very difficult work, it was certainly impressive, but it cannot be called entirely successful...
Seawell insists there will be sufficient money. Heaven knows he is no mad builder like Ludwig II of Bavaria. The center's theater building, now under construction, will almost comply with Moliere's notion that all drama needs is a platform and a passion or two. It will house three theaters, none with a conventional proscenium. Seawell called in Gordon Davidson of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum as consultant. He has come up with a plan to ally his own successful theater with Denver's troupe to be. "Time is the hardest thing to buy," says...
...does, the reader thinks, his eyes opened by Morgan's perception of Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking...
Religion became a crisis for all the brothers except Eddie. Dilly abandoned faith altogether. Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual. Ronnie dismayed everyone: in a passion ate search for authority, he "went over" to Rome, and became his adopted church's bright star as newspaper columnist, radio preacher and witty apologist for the faith. Somehow the family ties managed to survive. Even after Ronnie's conversion, the brokenhearted bishop could sign his letters, "With overflowing love, dearest...