Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private passion is reading philosophy-Spinoza, the Greeks, the Bible, the ancient Buddhist writings. It is part of his search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...
...blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important cellist to an incomparable one," and the rest of the press gave echo...
First Love. Kingsley, who won his Pulitzer Award with his first play (Men in White) only five years after graduating from Cornell, will not let his newfound passion for TV keep him away from Broadway: "The theater is the Tiffany of the industry and will always be my first love. In fact, I won't do any serious thinking about TV until I've finished the play I'm working on now-a contemporary tragedy. I imagine my first TV offering will be a rewrite of one of my old plays, perhaps Dead...
...Captain Michales gnashed his teeth." With this flat opening sentence, Greek Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis introduces his third memorable novel to reach U.S. readers in as many years. A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching...
...Indian simply called Chief, a violent, powerful man with an instinctive way of handling the animals, who warns Fiddler not to become too friendly with them. As his respect for most of his fellows declines, his love for the hand some, graceful and proud animals be comes almost a passion. In a final bloody scene of raw horror, poor Fiddler's loyalty to his cats ironically becomes the cause of his death...