Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passion for Work. Webb covets money, but except for Cadillacs (he is on his fifth, a cream-colored convertible with blue upholstery) he gets little personal pleasure from it. He is a warm, sympathetic and basically modest man. He fervently admires talent in others. But fellow toilers who do not share his perfectionism and his passion for work fill him with injured bewilderment and anger; he reacts to any threat against complete artistic control of his work with the ferocity of a Boer trekker defending his oxen against the howling black...
...moral problem of The Burning Glass is genuine, and Playwright Morgan's characters say some pertinent things. But there is no real sense of moral passion, nor effect of intellectual light. There is rather an unconscionable amount of talk that sounds much more like writing, and of love-making that seems written by rote. Despite a lively and accomplished performance by Cedric Hardwicke as the Prime Minister and about 15 minutes of good, vulgar, second-act suspense, The Burning Glass is a high-toned bore...
...Passion for Pacifism. Author de Beauvoir begins by showing the perfect, almost mathematical harmony into which her lovers, Pierre and Franchise, have built their lives. He is an intellectual actor-producer, she an equally intellectual writer. Around this hard-working pair in 1938-39 swirls the theater life of Paris, popping with misfits, eccentrics, and tough careerists. Smug in her harmony with Pierre, Franchise finds it hard to understand why other people's lives are so full of discord...
...Greek Passion, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The temptation, betrayal and death of a Passion-play Christus; an impres sive modern parable by the author of Zorba the Greek (TIME...
John Synge (of London's Sotheby & Co., the Egyptian government's appraisers), who spent eleven months evaluating Farouk's mound of gimmicks, had wound up making an amateur's psychoanalysis of the King himself, whom he had never met. "Farouk had an absolute passion for completion," he said. "He loved costly little machines that would work. He preferred small objects he could carry and fondle. He was a child in many ways...