Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe Later? There are other pro-Ike forces working on Fine. One of them is a millionaire with a passion for politics and photography named Andrew John Sordoni, for years a close friend of Fine's. Sordoni, a son of one of Garibaldi's famous 1,000 who came to the U.S. in 1867, worked in the mines as a child, and decided to make a million. He made his million many times over. He owns 14 companies, is a director of 40 more, lives in one of his six hotels. He is also secretary of commerce...
...shallow and pleasure-loving, but cleverer and more imaginative than either of her lovers, both of whom she outgrows. In his first Hollywood movie since That Hamilton Woman (1941), Laurence Olivier is a bit too elegant as Restaurantman Hurstwood, but he plays a tricky role with grace and restrained passion. In lesser parts, Eddie Albert is often overly bumpkinish as the traveling salesman, but Miriam Hopkins is a convincingly shrewish Mrs. Hurstwood...
Their experiments are far from exceptional. All over the U.S., thousands of couples are building or finishing their own homes; thousands more are remodeling their old ones. Partly, their activity is a new expression of the old American passion for working with their hands; it has sent the sales of power saws, sanders, drills, spray guns, and all power tools soaring. But mainly, the "build-it-yourself" boom is born of economic necessity. Not only has the oldtime handyman all but disappeared, but hired home builders or repairers are sometimes shoddy workmen, and always high-priced. Said a Chicago lumber...
Yale's Clarence W. Mendell, 69, former dean of the college and for nearly a generation the "grand old Roman" of the faculty. A tweedy little man with a passion for flashy sport coats and corncob pipes, "Clare" Mendell divided his time between poring over Latin sentence connection, digging up lost Tacitus manuscripts, weeding his vegetables, and just being the sort of gentle scholar that many Yale facultymen have tried to imitate...
...Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time...