Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Elfriede Troetschel, soprano; Diana Eutrati, contralto; Friedrich Haertel, bass; D. Fi-scher-Dieskau, baritone; Helmut Kreps, tenor; Boys' Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the augmented choir and orchestra of the Berlin Radio, Fritz Lehmann conducting; Vox, 8 sides LP). One of the first postwar German recordings. Bach's great score is unabridged, the orchestra and chorus are fine, the soloists are good. Recording: excellent...
...Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century English eccentric whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy for Protestants and Hanoverians (TIME...
...Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century English eccentric whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy to Protestants and the House of Hanover (TIME...
...stubborn flying general's mission: rebuilding a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to 1) discredit precision daylight bombing, and 2) undermine the whole aerial offensive against German-held Europe. Brigadier General Frank Savage-(Gregory Peck) goes at the job with the cold passion of a martinet and the inner torment of a man of good will. He breaks subordinates, cancels privileges, harangues his crews ("Consider yourselves dead"), disgraces misfits, puts the outfit through elementary training paces and woos such resentment that every pilot accepts his blanket invitation to apply for transfer...