Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry men of M.N.R., seasoned street fighters, were powerfully bolstered by Bolivia's national police and tin miners flocking in from the mountains. They fought on in La Paz's working-class quarter. Most of the army's reinforcements were green conscripts with no passion for politics, no taste for bloody infighting. At a first-aid post where 350 casualties were treated in a few hours, an Indian mother squatted beside her dead soldier son's body and wailed: "What had my poor guagua (baby) to do with all this...
Self-discipline in the exercise of political liberties is also needed to keep democracy stable. Latinos are individualists, insistent upon personal as distinct from political liberty. They are men of passion, men of honor. Lord Bryce, writing in 1912, noted in them "a temper which holds every question to be one of honor." Sometimes, in the flurry of upholding honor and individual rights, some of the quieter ground rules of social conduct have a tendency to get lost in the shuffle. A Cuban joke defines democracy as "having a good job and the right to drive on the wrong side...
...entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand: by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights, but for the souls of men . . . The conflict of the future is between the absolute who is the God-man and the absolute which is the man-God . . . The anti-Christ will...
Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
...traditional Easter concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society combined forces to sing Bach's St. John's Passion, under the direction of Charles Munch...