Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former High Court judge and Foreign Minister, whose passion to right all wrongs sometimes leads him to wrong the right, shaggy Herbert Evatt had never hit it off with his party's hornyhanded, mainly Catholic trade unionists in the big cities. His indiscriminate sympathy for the underdog led him to plead the case of martyred Cardinal Mindszenty before the U.N., but it also prompted Evatt to lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked...
...doesn't suggest anything to me, and so I have to work from imagination. It was lucky for me that I left Italy-but to do what I have done since, I had to have all that nature first." Even in his Italian days, however, Escher had a passion for patterns. Then the abstract mosaics in Spain's Alhambra suggested to him the possibility of combining tight, flat patterns with illusions of spatial depth, and he has been drawing elaborate illusions ever since. "All my works," Escher says mildly, "are games. Serious games...
Love is supposed to be the last stronghold of the simple life remaining these days, but everything attached to this gentle passion seems smothered in shortages and regulations. In primitive societies, at least, the prospective couple can cut through the red tape and build their own hut; in crowded Cambridge they are at the mercy of a bad housing shortage...
...spite of the boycott, Justice Warren minced no words at the celebration. His theme: that justice "is the rightful heritage of every human being and that it is his right and duty to achieve it." In America, said he, "waves of passion, prejudice and even hatreds have on occasion swept over us and almost engulfed us . . . At times we have been close to failure but we have never failed in our climb toward the pinnacle of true justice. And we are climbing today to meet the test of Thomas Jefferson that 'the most sacred of the duties...
...type of magazine. About a quarter of the 80 million comic books that readers buy each month are known as "horror comics," bearing such titles as Tormented, The Thing, Web of Evil. Typical plot: a gravedigger falls in love with a beautiful girl, kills her in a fit of passion and then makes love to the corpse. When rigor mortis sets in, the gravedigger is strangled in the dead girl's arms. Such gory plots and pictures, which brought on a congressional investigation of horror comics (TIME, May 3), have stirred up a nationwide campaign against the books...