Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia expatriate in Europe, into a wondrously complacent world where no gentleman ever had to make his own bed. Traipsing from capital to capital with his parents and sisters, he grew into a sophisticated young man with a high collar beneath his full beard. He developed only one passion: painting, of the sort practiced long before by Frans Hals and Velasquez...
...book's page 7, Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt is involved: "The burning eyes of the passionate Hungarian studied her for a long moment, and it seemed that the decision to possess her was made in that instant. 'As an artist you have no equal,' she said tritely, as he held her hand in a fervent and prolonged grasp . . . Only a few hours later, her body stripped of the clothes that hid its superb beauty, Lola sought to achieve the heights of passion which Liszt so obviously enjoyed...
...Radcliffe and Harvard groups joined forces at the end of the concert for the Credo from the Lord Nelson Mass, by Haydn, and Bach's Wir Sctzen Uns from the St. Matthew Passion. A freshman chamber orchestra accompanied the Passions' magnificent lullaby. The two choruses sang well together; in the future they should join forces for a larger portion of their joint concerts. Both Miller and Radcliffe's Cornelia Davenport conducted with an agreeable lack of interpretive mannerisms. They deserve credit for building the freshman choruses into a fine musical organization...
...steaming contusion. In 1935 she married Goffredo Aiessandnm, a movie director. One day she trailed him to a rendezvous with another woman, hinted her displeasure by ramming her car into his. They were separated. Anna loves her son Luca now 13 and stricken with polio, with a fierce protective passion that motivates much of her acting. She is grimly determined to leave him rich when she dies, and she probably will: under the soft schedule of Italian taxes, her take-home pay over the last ten years has been tremendous For several years in the '40s Anna kept company...
...from Arthur Koestler. He has had it. Says Koestler: "This ... is a farewell to arms ... I have said all I had to say on these questions [that have] obsessed me, in various ways, for the best part of a quarter century. Now the errors are atoned for, the bitter passion has burnt itself out; Cassandra has gone hoarse, and is due for a vocational change." As to what the vocational change might be, for a man who is proud that his books have been burned behind him, the reader must guess. And who is the dinosaur of the book...