Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Craven's method is to trace the development of painting by a series of critical and biographical sketches of great painters, applying continually his test for true art: vitality, gusto, a passion to interpret life. It is as good a standard as any other but leads inevitably to the conclusion that lusty Rubens was one of the greatest artists who ever lived; and that patrician Velasquez, who "painted the King's face in precisely the same spirit as his modern kinsman Monet painted haystacks," was little more than an expert technician. The 500 pages of the book are a learned...
...long speeches resemble the monotone of a Fourth of July speaker, minus the relieving pyrotechnics usually associated with that day. Charitably speaking, his tailor may be held to account for his awkwardness in moving, but Mr. La Roque will be held personally responsible for his awkwardness in the fine passion. Ritchle Ling, who plays the husband, was formerly an opera singer. Mr. Ling, it is to be hoped, will soon again be an opera singer...
...only people in the world who are more insistent than body-building enthusiasts are calendar reformers. A high-school course in plane geometry has imbued them with a passion for neat mathematical balance and their sensitive souls are seared by the irregularity of Gregorian months. Unfortunately, spring has its animating influence on the just and on the unjust, and the Fixed Calendar League has emerged from its hibernation to plague honest...
...passion for the insert thunderbolts...
...World would lash out with its oldtime fire. It is common knowledge that the editorials read most regularly and closely by President Hoover were those in the arch-Democratic New York World. Reason: Besides being close friends and mutual admirers, Herbert Hoover and Walter Lippmann have in common a passion for fairness which each respects. Also in common are their sense of bewilderment at the complexities of national life, their hunger for facts...