Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
Much of the ballad public, with a passion for oversimplification, prefers to believe that Rosemary Clooney was created overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere...
...stammering mathematician, who lectured so ploddingly that he often had to threaten his students with an extra assignment of "lines" to get them to class. At other times he became Mr. Lewis Carroll, the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and had a passion for kittens and children. Last week a Welsh professor reported some curious evidence about a third Mr. Dodgson-the curator of the Christ Church Senior Common Room...
...second performance with the Boston Symphony for a joint production of the "Saint Matthew Passion" is set for later in the spring, but the exact date has not been released...
...books from such old bellringers as Frank Slaughter, F. Van Wyck Mason, James Street and Rosamond Marshall (see below). And in March, famed Violinist Albert Spalding will fiddle his way into the act with, his publishers announce, "an absorbing and richly patterned evocation of a gaudy era of passion and plot, deceit and beauty." Author Spalding's hero: an 18th century Italian violinist who loved dangerously...