Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play ultimately unacceptable is not that it is often dull and even more often arty, but that it exposes decadence with decadent means. Lush and sensational, it uses its material as theatrical hootch; it spells out every sentence and then adds exclamation points. Causes are forgotten in the passion for effects; a vision of Hell dwindles into a Grand Guignol. Elia Kazan has directed the play vividly as a theater piece; he doubtless could not help adding glare to what cries out for shade...
...easily bridged. Materialist Holmes, with his suppleness, curiosity and gusto, was perennially young; Socialist Laski, with his dogmas and his immense learning, was prematurely old. For the rest, a passion for ideas, a faith in reason (as used by men of intellect), a dim view of organized religion, mutually known books and friends marked the common court on which they played out a tennis match of the mind. In time, they batted everything and everybody over the net, from Aristotle to Hemingway, from dentists to doorknobs, from Communism to the common cold...
Wrote Holmes: "I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy . . . If I am to consider contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care...
This year's concert itinerary is less extensive than previous tours, since the groups must return to Boston during the latter part of the spring vacation. They will then begin rehearsals for their April performance of "St. Matthew's Passion" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...