Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound, its subversiveness, its talk of the continuous war of classes, its protest against poverty, the passion of its economics, lastingly moved Shaw, for he was poor, came from an oppressed nation, had lost his religious faith, and was in need of a weapon and a role...
...political thinker of any substance. Shaw's great vanity as an artist-and he was an artist above all-enabled him to agree with double-edged modesty with his critics. He often spoke, truly, of his poor education. He observed with real humility the learning and the passion of the Webbs, whom he worshipped. It was a kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because (if it can be put this way) brilliance and genius were all he had. And he knew their nature: he had the penetrating comic genius. He was expert...
...International Show (TIME, Oct. 30), with a disappointed verdict on contemporary U.S. art: "It appears to be suffering from what I take to be a kind of measles which affects the young. So many of the young seem to have gone all abstract ... it is probably due to the passion for modern culture...
Harriet Craig (Columbia). George Kelly's Craig's Wife, a play about a woman whose passion for tidiness destroyed her marriage, was a 1926 Pulitzer Prizewinner. In 1936, as a movie starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles, it was rated one of the better pictures of the year. Hollywood's current version is not so successful...
...Evelyn Waugh, picking his way through facts and legends, tells Helena's story.† Satirist Waugh has put away his satire this time. The religious theme of Helena runs close to the ruling passion of Waugh's life, his adopted Roman Catholicism-perhaps too close to it. Any man with his heart in his mouth must either blurt the whole thing out or be content to say almost nothing at all. In Helena, Waugh says almost nothing at all about his own feelings, about his characters, or about the religious motives that compelled their lives. Not even...