Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bearded Jack Smith, 27, first to rate the critics' recognition (TIME, July 26, 1954), who says: "A bottle is a bottle, and it's quite different from a cucumber. I want to get this across." An admiring critic found in his bold brush strokes "a passion reminiscent of Van Gogh's during his Potato Eaters period...
...brief biographical introduction, British Essayist Violet Hammersley outlines the life that drove Madame de Sévigné to ink. Widowed at 25 when her chronically unfaithful husband was killed in a duel over his latest mistress,* Madame de Sévigné succumbed to the grand passion of possessive mother love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary...
...Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven nor of hell?" This line sums up perfectly a kind of moral neutralism that did not end with Madame...
Early Career: Born Sept. 10, 1887, near Pisa, to a family of modest means. His father was an accountant and a salami salesman. Forced to work to put himself through college, Gronchi joined the Catholic workers' movement while still a student, beginning a lifelong passion for politics; fought and was decorated three times for bravery in World...
...John] not the Jewish people but cliques, groups that are inimical to Jesus . . . The Christian who associates his Jewish neighbors with those who plotted Christ's death is perpetuating an injustice never contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast and say: 'It is I who am the sinner...