Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nephew of Herbert Lehman, he went through Hotchkiss and Yale ('12), passed his New York State Bar exams with ease (he took Harold Medina's "cram course"). But right from the start, Arthur Goodhart was interested in something more than politics or private practice. His real passion: the great common philosophy underlying both U.S. and British...
...bottom of the bellyache, Langsner quoted and neatly skewered Painter Motherwell's introduction to the show's catalogue. ''The process of painting [these pictures]," Motherwell had explained, "is conceived of as an adventure, without preconceived ideas, on the part of persons of intelligence . . . and passion...
...Troubled Air makes two points, not new but still good: 1) when loose accusations start flying around, innocent people may be hurt; 2) liberals should not let their passion for freedom blind them to Communism. Unfortunately, Shaw makes these points more as a pamphleteer than a novelist. His book moves smoothly, but his characters are papery and stiff. For all his craft and good will, Novelist Shaw never quite creates the illusion that he is writing about people who breathe air, or even listen to what...
...administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...