Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story takes place in 1921, in a rural Greek village under Turkish domination, a town which has chosen from its populace a cast for the septennial Passion play: a Jesus, and a Peter, James, John, Judas and Mary Magdelan. The play itself never gets produced, but the characters, from the moments they are chosen, find themselves beginning to play their roles in real life...
Save for Judas, those named for the Passion play sympathize with these outcasts. Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...
Choice of the group for "worst featured artist" was the Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society, for its performance of the Bach St. Matthew Passion...
...duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with John Foster Dulles...
...chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...