Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real passion came not from Germany, which promises to pay some reparations, but from Israel, which wants redress but does not want the payments to be considered expiation. Many Israelis still carry concentration-camp numbers tattooed on their arms; almost all mourn murdered relatives. The prospect of sitting down with the Germans to discuss a financial settlement seemed degrading. But Israel, financially desperate and short of everything, could not even afford pride and sentiment. Opposition newspapers reprinted old photographs of naked, emaciated concentration-camp victims stacked, like cordwood, for burning, but there was little else...
...this passion for living his parts that has led his wife to call Laughton "a gifted amateur." Charles shrugs agreement: "Why not? After all, amateur means lover,* doesn't it? I see no reason why a professional shouldn't love his work as much as a hobbyist loves...
Laughton is diffident with strangers, impatient with fools, and warmly loyal to his friends. Agnes Moorehead describes him as "a big bear with a big, pink, plush heart." His passion for flowers is so great that he will walk miles to see the spring's first crocus. In the gardens of Chapel Hill, N.C., he was so moved by the budding of narcissi and daffodils that he cried. Laughton's personal untidiness upsets some of his friends, but one of them, Actor Arthur Macrae, thinks it more deliberate than careless: "After all, Charles is a funny-looking sort...
Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...