Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bracken Lee, Republican governor of Utah, is a blunt, stubborn individualist with a passion for economy. He has cut off state aid to such projects as the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and has slashed the state's social-security program. He was the only governor in the nation who refused to declare a United Nations Day. He has consistently fought any increase in taxes, no matter what the need might be. But of all the stands that Lee has taken, none has stirred such storms as his atti tude towards Utah's public schools...
...GREEK PASSION (432 pp.)-Nikos Kazantzakis-Simon & Schuster...
...Greek Orthodox priest and elders of the Turkish town of Lycovrissi found it easy, a year ahead of time, to fill most of the parts in their Passion play. A coarse-faced wife-beater was picked to play Judas. The role of Mary Magdalen fell to the village prostitute. Plain men of good will were chosen for the Apostles, and it was finally agreed that a fresh-faced young peasant named Manolios was best fitted to play the part of Christ...
...chosen actors never gave their Passion play. Instead, along with their fellow townsfolk of Lycovrissi, they lived it. In The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis shows how the suffering and crucifixion of Christ in Roman Judea might be re-enacted in a modern setting -a Greek-inhabited Turkish town, circa 1920. Second of his novels to be published in the U.S. within a year, it is a striking demonstration of literary virtuosity for Kazantzakis. The hero of his Zorba the Greek was a neo-Hellenic Pan who seemed to have goat-footed his way straight out of pagan mythology...
Dreams on the Mountain. Each of the chosen actors of the Lycovrissi Passion is instructed by the priest to fix his mind on his coming role. Manolios, the Christus, is the first to find his mind divided. He lifts his thoughts to sacred things, but his fiancee, panting for marriage, keeps bringing him back to the earthy. Manolios retreats to a mountain and meditates, only to find the Lycovrissi Magdalen dancing through his dreams...