Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passion for Purity. That she should wish to do so out of mere self-hatred is not inconceivable either, for at one point, she writes: "I cannot conceive the possibility of God loving me, when I feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures...
...talk entitled "Cassandra and Atropos: Jeffers and Sitwell," Rev. Wilder praised modern skeptics for rejecting the "perverted version" of the Passion propounded by these and other poets. He felt that the importance of the Crucifixion lies in the "objective intervention" of God, not in the suffering of Christ...
...enough to make him a good man. "Bozzy's" solemn efforts to fill this tall order make scandalously funny reading. He was already the father of a bastard son (who died in infancy), and now a second child was on the way as a result of his "licentious passion" for one Mrs. Dodds (a "sweet little mistress . . . admirably formed for amorous dalliance" -but "she debases my dignity" and "costs me a great deal of money...
...since the close of World War II, has labored tirelessly to bring peace and stability to this area. But unfortunately passion in the area threatened to prevail over peaceful purpose. The direct relations of Egypt with both Israel and France kept worsening to a point at which first Israel, then France, and Great Britain also, determined that in their judgment there could be no protection of their vital interests without resort to force. The U.S. was not consulted in any way. Nor were we informed in advance...
...governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes and a few gestures, but a thing of passion and of peculiarly stylized and yet convincing movement that is distinctly...