Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decreed. A professional soldier with a passion for order, Adib Shishekly as an army colonel has been the power behind a succession of Syrian Prime Ministers since 1949. Last December, alarmed by his country's corruption and by Communism's increasing strength, he emerged from his calculated obscurity and took over the government, announcing, as he suspended Parliament, that he was really not a dictator at heart. Polite and painstakingly softspoken, he once endured an amateur performance of The Importance of Being Earnest to the bitter end although he knew no English. Scrupulously honest, even by his enemies...
Does Mrs. Roosevelt, at last, understand more about the Russians than the hopeful fact that some of them have a secret and subversive passion for Tchaikovsky? Does she really understand what they are up to? Does she know, with her feelings as well as with her mind, that Russia is a terrible and terrorized police state, ruled with complete cynicism by "a gang of ruthless and bloody-minded professors"?*That is a question which still troubles those who find it not difficult to resist her charm...
Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
Prime Mover of the universe is a force indifferent to man. Despite its amateur philosophizing, The Dynasts is powerful poetic drama full of grandeur and passion, but Hardy's short dramatic pieces are easier to enjoy...
What overcame Hardy's faults was his deep knowledge of human weakness, his brooding kinship with suffering. Some of his poems are short stories in rhyme, gravely undulating narratives about the dangers of irresponsible passion and the ironies that level men to despair. A good many turn on the theme of unhappy marriage, a subject on which he could speak with authority...