Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Aubrey, 17th century English gentleman of leisure, had a painter's eye for human traits and a gossip columnist's passion for scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions...
...Communist members of the Israeli delegation to last summer's Moscow Youth Festival returned to Jerusalem full of the "ravenous passion" they found for Israel among Russian Jewry. Notwithstanding 40 years' indoctrination that was supposed to have turned them into good, godless Communists, Russian Jews traveled as far as 4,000 miles to see the delegates, swarmed about them in their hotel, paid 50 rubles for an Israeli festival emblem (other delegations' emblems sold for a ruble each), bought up all the tickets for the Israeli singing and dancing performances. "By the end of our tour," says...
Murrow's alarms are almost always matched by his excursions to the scene of the news. He covers his stories with an intensity that courts exhaustion and a passion for physical danger that is the despair of his friends and employers. Says his friend and boss, Bill Paley: "You could almost call it a drive to self-destruction. He's never happy unless he's working. When he looks like death, that's when you feel a happy glow...
This impressive book, sixth and next to last installment in Will Durant's massive Story of Civilization, retraces that battle in half a million highly readable words. Painstaking, broadminded and fluent, The Reformation is a triumph for 71-year-old Author Durant, who combines an encyclopedist's passion for detail with a philosopher's ability to generalize and a good storyteller's sense of anecdote...
Enter the Monk. Laughing satire soon gave way to bitter invective in the growing passion for reform. The unity of Christendom had been precarious for centuries before the Reformation. The marvel is, suggests Durant, that with its half-dozen-odd principal nations all out of step-in time, in psychology, in power, in learning-the Roman authority survived as long as it did. Italy was not only the home of the papacy, it was the source and cradle of European civilization itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway...