Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion and prejudice there was one heartening note: Mrs. Rouse's old neighbors telephoned to urge the Rouses to move back to their old home on American Avenue...
Into Bradley's former post as executive vice president and finance chairman goes Frederic G. Donner, 54, a G.M. financial specialist since 1926. Michigander Donner (Michigan, '23) is a trim, conservative man with a passion for figures and a reputation for precision. Staff members call him an "animated slide rule," set their watches by his arrival at work (8:34 a.m.), respect his ability to shuffle three sets of figures at once without losing track. After all the changes, the top operating spot at G.M. was still firmly held by the same man: President Harlow H. Curtice...
...stuff of spectacle is indeed all here, and Director Rossen has marshaled it with care and passion against the stern Spanish landscape. His best scenes have the faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...
...just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare of Marcel Aymé and The Wicked Village of Gabriel Chevallier a fun-and-games attitude toward sex sets the tone, so that even the most serious consequences of immoderate passion are summed up with nothing more stern than a sympathetic shrug...