Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forested Plains. The style of this story maintains with brilliant subtlety and consistency the tone of paradox and indirection indicated by its title. That its analysis sometimes attains a frightening level of acuteness and power is hardly to be wondered at, for to the mind which views passion as the sole, incontrovertible, demoniac power, ("I reveled in the factuality of the rat") all lesser experience attains a strangely new but clear focus. Morality has long become debased to the procedure of a controlling principle, and soon even this must crumble, for its irrelevance to the absolute is perceived. If Kafka...
...temptation changed to a passion, and Shapley promptly published in "Popular Astronomy," won a scholarship to Princeton, and dashed through his Ph.D. in a year. His brilliant work attracted the Mr. Wilson Observatory staff, on which he served from 1914 to 1921. "During this period," Shapley recalls, "I developed my ideas for measuring the vast distance of the Universe." His theory prompted fellow astronomers to call him a "modern Copernicus" for the discovery that the sun is at the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy and not near the center. "I've been attacked for lots of reasons," Shapley remarks...
...paper and one that would later appear in various guises in his masterpieces The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma and Lucien Leuwen. The cold analyst ("Outside geometry, there's but a single manner of reasoning, that of facts") was balanced by the man of passionate emotions ("I had possibly the most violent burst of passion I've ever experienced . . . The passion . . . was ambition ... I felt myself capable of the greatest crimes and infamies"). The would-be cynic ("I've got to attack every woman I meet [to] form my character") was softened...
...imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent passion for a majestic Italian beauty spanned a decade during which he never saw the "sublime wench." After eleven years he finally noted: "On September 21, at half-past eleven, I won the victory I had so long desired." It took him a few more years to realize that there was nothing sublime...
...memoirs fall generally into two classes-front-line yarns and headquarters stories. This book, written by one of those fast-rising, baby air generals people joked about in World War II, combines in one man's memoirs both the passion of combat and the perspective of command. Germany's Adolf Galland was made general of the Luftwaffe's fighter arm at 29, after shooting down 94 Allied planes on the Western front. Some of his air-battle stories read almost as fast as the Messerschmitts he flew, and his staff-battle accounts give the clearest picture...