Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily...
...published would fit in one small book. But he was admired as a poet, and loved as a friend, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Padraic Colum, William Vaughn Moody. A tall, thin, diffident man with a gaunt face and staring eyes, Ridgely Torrence wrote his rare verse with passion and unceasing care; his poems, polished by humble sincerity as well as art, are understandable by common readers. An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life and reverenced it as deeply as many of his contemporaries seemed to fear or despise it. The best of his work is in Poems...
Spelunkers are men who like to explore holes in the ground. They say in the Pyrenees, which are as full of holes as Gruyère cheese, that once you become a spelunker (short for speleologist) the passion never leaves you. Such a man was 33-year-old Marcel Loubens. Since boyhood he had been crawling in & out of caves in his native Ariège in southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which...
...bought a half-interest in a nearby daily, and prospered. He decided that he needed more education, and sold out his share for $5,500 to pay his way through Harvard College and Law School. On the side he wrote for the Boston Transcript. He had such a passion for accuracy that, before writing an article on the vanishing buffalo, he spent three months finding out exactly how many buffalo then survived (his finding...
...married to one of his fellow violin students and living in Larchmont, N.Y., Harrell still likes to sing the classics, especially the part of Christ in the St. Matthew Passion. But he thinks casting directors expect him to be good at learning difficult modern scores because of the thorough musical training he got studying the violin. On Baritone Harrell's schedule for next winter: parts in Milhaud's Christopher Columbus (with the Philharmonic-Symphony) and Stravinsky's Rake's Progress at the Metropolitan Opera...