Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central trains with diamond-shaped smokestack and steam domes of polished brass, and Hudson River sidewheelers and yachts, of which he used to build faithful models. There, working side by side with fellow fantasists, topped by Paul Klee. and fellow precisionists, notably Josef Albers. Feininger evolved the weird, airy, many-faceted...
...Must Die. Jules Dassin (Rififi) has made a magnificent cinema-daptation of The Greek Passion, Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about a modern imitation of Christ (see below...
...picture is based on The Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas...
...projected tetralogy extends the large hint given by last year's Justine: that Anglo-Irish Author Durrell writes just about the most original prose fiction to be found today. Balthazar revisits the scene-Alexandria-and the characters of Justine, catches them again in a blaze of passion, decadence and self-doubt that adds a new dimension of truth to the many faces of love...
...crowd was jolted out of its sophistication. Milling at the intermission, filing through doors, Manhattan secretaries with their tweedy, nebulous fiances, asthmatic maiden aunts from New York, students and old gentlemen and matron dowagers were discussing innocence and evil and faith and love and what is guilt with a passion admirable in a college freshman...