Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Sigmund was three, father Jakob abandoned his son's birthplace, the Moravian town of Freiburg, and went after better business first in Leipzig and then Vienna. Freud so hated this uprooting that he detested Vienna ever after. To travel, to leave Vienna behind, became a lifelong passion. But one of the greatest love-hate paradoxes in Freud's life is that while regularly railing at Vienna, he stuck closely to it. For 47 years he lived in the same Viennese house; and when Briton Jones arrived to take him away, on the day after the Nazi invasion...
...more serious symptom of Freud's condition was his sudden passion for cocaine. "The essential constituent of coca leaves" had only recently been introduced into Europe, and young Freud went crazy over the "magical drug." Convinced that it was harmless, he gave it to his patients (one of whom died), pressed it on all his friends (including Martha), and himself took "very small doses of it regularly against depression and . . . indigestion." He wrote a paper describing "the most gorgeous excitement" it aroused in animals, and exulted in the "virility" it aroused in him. "Woe to you, my Princess, when...
...Long before the printing press was invented, literate men and women were putting their thoughts on paper in the cursive or script penmanship that has continued to be used to this day...It remained for Brookline with its still-to-be-justined passion for progressive education to reject the writing method preferred by the civilized world and to substitute a system that bears a striking similarity to the crude hieroglyphics of the ancient Phoenicians. The world isn't apt to move back for Brookline's benefit; so it would be more sensible for Brookline to get into step...
...success could be credited to CinemaScope and how much to the lavish production itself and its smasheroo promotion campaign. A few suspected its triumph might be due to the simple fact that with all its spectacular slickness, The Robe was based on a great theme (Christ's passion) written by a popular storyteller (the late Lloyd C. Douglas). As Samuel Goldwyn remarked: "In any consideration of new dimensions for motion pictures, the fact still remains that the most important dimension is that of the story...
...subject of President Eliot's 1909 discourse was "The Religion of the Future." "The new religion," Eliot predicted, "will foster powerfully a virtue which is comparatively new in the world -the love of truth and the passion for seeking it. And the truth will progressively make men free . . . When dwellers in a slum suffer the familiar evils caused by overcrowding, impure food and cheerless labor, the modern true believers contend against the sources of such misery by providing public baths, playgrounds, wider and cleaner streets, better dwellings and more effective schools-that is, they attack the sources of physical...