Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proper Importance. Although Giles now makes enough money to indulge his passion for cars (he lost the sight of his right eye in a motor accident) and to live on a prosperous farm in Suffolk, he has not forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little...
Despite the Iron Curtain and the familiar Soviet passion for secrecy in its affairs, a good deal of news can be gotten out of Russia. But it takes digging. That is why TIME has a "Russian Desk," whose three members spend their time winnowing facts from the Russian chaff. Last week's Background For War story in TIME on Russia's war potential was a good example of the nature of their work...
...Little Moscow" got that way largely because of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, an ex-clergyman with more passion for Marx than Luther who toured northern Holland in the igth Century. Nieuwenhuis first preached Socialism, moved on to anarchism and brought Finsterwolde with him. Finsterwolde's firebrands voted as far left as they could. Eventually, this meant voting Communist...
Sandburg's love for the people is as genuine as his love for nickel stogies, but it never attains poetic passion and it is shrouded in pessimism more often than it is clothed in hope. At best he sees a murky, half-formed potential...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...