Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, March 1, erred-pardonably-in its pleasant report of a recent New York Times interview of the undersigned on the topic of "Mom" ... I never have "backpedaled" about Mom, but TIME was correct in saying I like women. It is the intensity of that passion which makes me deplore those who turn into Moms-an addlepated aggregate of self-made tyrants who turn upon truth or freedom as swiftly as upon evil, if either hurts their vanity. And this last is founded on the busty credo that any act of procreation, including the accidental, gives them title...
...Have Had It." The second great paradox of polio follows naturally from the first: as a disabling disease, it is a product of civilized man's passion for sanitation, sewerage and other public-health measures. While other infectious diseases have decreased with higher living standards, paralytic polio has been increasing. Man himself is the only known natural reservoir of the virus. How it reaches him and enters his system is not known for certain, but the current consensus is: person to person, rather than by pests (though flies can carry the virus), and through the mouth...
...Greek Passion, by Nikos Kazantzakis. Temptation, betrayal and death of a Passion-play Christus (TIME...
...Greek Passion, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The temptation, betrayal and death of a Passion-play Christus; an impressive modern parable by the author of Zorba the Greek (TIME...
...Well, my God! . . . Was it because of his passion for pacifism...