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Widespread interest in Christ's sufferings and Drer's own identification with Christ as an agent of divine creation led DŸrer to return to the Passion again and again. His first major series, a sequence of large woodcuts referred to as the Large Passion was begun early in Drer's career, around 1497. These pictures are stuffed with detail, and the later sequences are, in comparison, a relief. The two most captivating series, Small Passion and Engraved Passion, represent a more restrained DŸrer. In the Small Passion, he creates what Fogg Museum print curator Marjorie Cohn...
...millionaire writer-director Alan Ayckbourn, House and Garden (two interconnected pieces performed by the same cast simultaneously on two different stages at the National Theater) are all concept and no content. In fact, the best piece of original, recent English writing in London today is probably Passion Play by Peter Nichols. Nichols' new work has been unofficially banned from the West End because of a nasty dispute with the National Theater some years ago, but this new revival of one of his early works proves (for those who've forgotten) that he's one of England's most skilled dramatists...
...Sadly, despite my desire to be a bad-ass, I eventually came to realize that I am not destined for a career as an FBI agent. It took me a long time to give up this dream, to realize that my passion for literature and wimpiness were not going to bring me to the forefront of the law enforcement profession. For me, the FBI is unattainable. In high school parlance, it's the in-crowd and I'm the kid on the outside...
There was a time - try to remember - when an American presidential election campaign seemed a matter of some consequence and passion. Theodore H. White would bustle about the republic composing Homeric prose about "The Making of the President...
...harbor. As long ago as 1871, English novelist Anthony Trollope, not usually short of words, found Sydney Harbour "inexpressibly lovely." And to this day, despite some wildly irresponsible development, it is the restless heart of the city, whose inhabitants are drawn instinctively to its foreshore in moments of collective passion, to celebrate, protest or play. Regardless of their background, Sydneysiders are united in love of their harbor: its waters dissolve their separate identities and reflect a common image; it is both solvent and balm, mixing disparate peoples and smoothing over their differences. Its own life grows richer: as industry becomes...