Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office Regulations, Diplomat Maclean found the loophole he was looking for: an inexorable rule that any civil servant who participated in politics would have to resign. Hurrying around to his chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan (for the last four years Britain's delegate to U.N.), Maclean declared a sudden passion for political controversy. "In that case," replied Sir Alexander with icy brevity, "you will have to leave the Service...
Copey knew good writing. He respected it. It was the passion of his life. Furthermore, student after student over many, many years left his classroom sharing both that passion and that respect. Though the title pages of books written by his former pupils may not mention his name, countless American writers could claim Copey as a collaborator...
...Smith left the U.S. to settle in England with a lump inheritance and a passion for foraging fine phrases from great writers who had created more than mere phrases. He would occasionally turn out such little books as Trivia and More Trivia, in which he rubbed his language to a fine sheen and tried to distill the essence of his new-found cultivation into concise paragraphs. Smith's lapidary phrases were admired by such tweedy literary folk as Christopher Morley, but, reread today, they seem rather cold and feeble...
...least half the 20,000 citizens of the Italian town of Sezze are Communists or Communist sympathizers. Last week, a tenth of them joined in a moving re-enactment of the sufferings of Christ. For the first time since the war, Sezze had decided to revive the passion play that had been its tradition for over 700 years. Unlike the world-famed performance at Oberammergau, Sezze's passion play is performed in the streets of the village by 1,500 of its citizens...
Flashing Arguments. But John Erskine was a good deal more than a performer. He had a passion for great books and great ideas ("Every gentleman owns books," he once snorted at a student) and that was what he wanted to pass on to his students. And so, one day in 1917, at an "otherwise dull faculty meeting," he proposed a revolutionary plan. He wanted to start a special course on the greatest books of Western civilization. It was not to be a course of lectures with knowledge served up predigested by the professor. It was to be a series...