Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flashy artistic tricks, but to a solid originality that has persuaded London critics to tout him as one of the most promising modern painters, young or old, to turn up in a decade. A blond, open-faced Scot, he first learned about art from his father, who had a passion for Cézanne and Turner. By the time young Alan was twelve, he was working in oils; two years later he was on his own, doing odd jobs (gardening, repairing bicycles, working on road gangs) for the money to paint full time. After a spell as an infantry medic...
...pigeonholed it and did not look at it for six months. By then the author, a certain Francis Joseph Thompson, had disappeared. Letters addressed to him went unanswered. At last Meynell resorted to the oldest author-tracing trick of the trade: he printed one of the submitted poems, The Passion of Mary, and found his poet...
...children, or boisterous relatives to lives things up, dc Hartog has attempted to provide a touch of raucous humor by a truly banal bit of stage trickery--a raised platform around the bed over which either one or both of the characters is prone to stumble in moments of passion or tenderness. This sort of thing is good for a yuk the first time, but after the third repetition even the fellers and gals of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had bought out the orchestra the night I saw the play, began to react a bit slowly...
Hollywood Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson is a dedicated amateur in the world of art, and filmdom's most ardent art collector. The passion for paintings, he says, is "a rewarding love affair, even if it takes over your house, your family, your income and your life." This week 40 of Robinson's prize oils take over part of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and in May the collection will move on to the National Gallery in Washington...
...profound intensity, expressed with rigorous restraint and the most economical of gestures. Oldtimers were appalled: it seemed to them that Edwin Booth had forgotten what "drama" was. Stage managers and critics begged him not to "refine his art too much," urged him to revert to the "awful burst of passion" of his younger days. "Edwin had everything but guts," complained Walt Whitman bitterly...