Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedeviled Actress Sullavan assuredly is: for love, she has left her high-placed dullard of a husband, only to find that her cheap, shallow, pleasure-seeking lover is about to walk out on her. Hers being an intense nature and a desperate passion, she can neither face her lover's desertion nor about-face into her husband's arms. It is a situation where the circumstances are shoddy, and only the consequences tragic...
...golden age of headmasters. There was witty, debonair Lewis Perry of Exeter, hulking N. Horton Batchelder, "a grand old stalwart, who built Loomis School into a distinguished institution," and Frank L. Boyden, who, "with his love for horses and antiques, his Yankee shrewdness, his aversion for public speaking, his passion for telephoning and automobiling, his unaffected simplicity combined with benevolent despotism," built Deerfield Academy (enrollment: 470) out of a tiny local school with only 14 students...
Vaughn Williams: Flos Campi (Francis Tursi, viola; Cornell A Cappella Chorus; orchestra conducted by Robert Hull; Concert Hall). An attractive musical evocation of The Song of Solomon, in which the viola's alto voice sings of Oriental love with considerable dark passion, while the chorus sings wordless syllables...
...world's current passion for eye patches and other attention-catchers, Manhattan Adman Frank Neuwirth hit upon a new one-a foot-long beard. He tried it in an ad for expensive ($7.50 to $20) Tiemaker Countess Mara Inc. (TIME, Dec. 2, 1946), and landed the store's account. In The New Yorker it was easily the ad of the week...
...more than finish their training, but Waugh has already completed them as individual representatives of an ancient nation turning a new page of its history. Sometimes the load is too much for his stature and he reverts (particularly where the "Thunder Box" is concerned) to scatological burlesque. Sometimes his passion for bloodshed and his awe of warriors like Ritchie-Hook so dull his intelligence that he becomes absurd. But such collapses have always been a part of Waugh. Sometimes they have seemed to be a major part, but Men at Arms argues that they are not. If his trilogy continues...