Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in a vintage 1939 recording by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia); Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome, played by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony and wrapped in one of the fanciest album packages to date (13 pages of photographs of Rome, with text by Vincent Sheean) at no extra cost (Victor...
People flocked to visit the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. They met, instead, a bearded, bearish moralist who had put all such vanities behind him. Most of the trouble in the world, pious Leo Tolstoy believed, was caused by man's passion for burying the Ten Commandments under heaps of verbiage. Educators, churchmen, politicians and pundits of every kind were all dedicated to the proposition that the simple truths of life, death and religion must be twisted into lies. The peasant blouse which Tolstoy loved to wear was not a cover for his body...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
MODERN artists find it easier to express passion than to praise God, and, except for Georges Rouault, they have generally chosen the easier course. But now a lame, grey, and perhaps great artist in Madrid has taken Rouault's high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish...
They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...