Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds, and if, in the end, the strength of their arms was no match for the guns and tanks of the foreign army the strength of their passion for freedom was enough to give pause to the rulers of great Russia itself...
Romeo and Juliet also had its points but was not very successful as a whole. Claire Bloom's Juliet was beguilingly youthful to look at; she had her moments of poetry, of awakening ardor and awakened passion. But she mixed talent with tediousness, was too mannered, too slow-paced, seemed half a Juliet really in love with Romeo, half an actress merely in love with her role. In that tender trap of a part-Romeo-Actor Neville was sometimes graceful, but, as with his Richard, never simple enough, and, like too many other Romeos, never real...
...breakaway in 1948. In many respects what the Polish Communists did was a greater act of courage than Tito's, for Tito when he defied Stalin had control of his own country and of its armed forces. The Polish leaders did not. They had only the passion of an idea, and the knowledge that in this, at least, they might count on the backing of their people...
...That passion stirred the small ruling group that gathered at 10 a.m. sharp one rainy morning last week in the cream-colored building of the Council of Ministers on Warsaw's Stalin Avenue. This was the inner council, the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' (Communist) Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin...
Blood & Tears. As actress. Callas is more exciting than any singer has a right to be. Her acting takes the form of a flashing eye that petrifies an emotion, a sudden rigidity that shouts of a breaking heart, a homicidal wish or a smoldering passion ("It takes nerve to stand still"). Callas' style of movement on stage strangely resembles the striding and lurching of the hamhearted operatic actress, but she moves so gracefully, so alluringly, with such authority, that even opera's baroque gestures take on breathtaking conviction...