Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draft board by getting two nominations to West Point, failing each time to meet the Point's physical standards. Just before the draft started up again in 1948, Cohn joined the National Guard, now holds a first lieutenant's commission. By his cleverness, obtrusiveness and passion for intrigue, he won a place in McCarthy's book as "the most brilliant young fellow I have ever...
...Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After the Seven Words--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--found in Matthew and Mark, we hear the less enigmatic pronouncement from Luke, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!" The music reaches its most sublime level...
...Premier Joseph Laniel, obsessed by a grande passion to stay in office, refused again to set a date for the Assembly's debate on the treaty, and thereby served notice that his government will not agree to German sovereignty before the Geneva Conference (April 26)-if ever...
...boss who crosses the screen is either a sleek deceiver or a leering flunky, and the police are slavish doers of the corporate will. Nevertheless, the film, within the propagandistic limits it sets, is a work of vigorous art. It is crowded with grindingly effective scenes, through which the passion of social anger hisses in a hot wind; and truth and lies are driven before it like sand...
...passion carries the actors along too in its gale. The workers, actual miners of the New Mexico local, carry conviction in their savage setting as trained actors could never do. The best of the worker-players is Juan Chacon, real-life president of the union local. Ugly and cold as an Aztec amulet, his heavy face comes slowly to life and warmth as the picture advances, and in the end seems almost radiant...