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...when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with one of his greatest works, Musical Offering. But, as Gaines argues in Evening in the Palace of Reason (Fourth...
...Thurman dancing together in a direct nod to their iconic scene in Pulp Fiction, a movie whose success built off the relaxed rapport of its characters. Here, there is no charisma. It appears as though the actors are simply enjoying their paychecks and investing almost none of their acting passion in the scene. Eating that extra Happy Meal and killing Bill have tired out these once-sprightly performers, and the scene fails...
...with many artists, his passion permeates several aspects of his life. He says he lives his words, and holds those of other hip hop artists in high regard. According to Oke, academia could take some pointers from...
There’s the shared love and passion for their sport that has grown with time. For Ogunwole, it started when his high school’s wrestling coach saw him playing football and had instant dreams of getting the quick and powerful athlete on the mat. For Preston, wrestling education began before he learned how to read...
...Reka,” she said, “had so much fire and passion in her game. She did everything she simply could have done...