Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed passion lurk'd below...
Strange pangs flashed along the brow of Harold Stassen, onetime childe wonder of Republican politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
...Streetcar Named Desire, the program's piece de resistance, revealed the company's great aptitude for the modern ballet-dance. Miss Kaye, who is today's formost exponent of dramatic roles, danced the part of Blanche Du Bois with all the neurotic and confused passion that the role embodies. Kriza was an excellent Stanley, primitive and animal-like in his simple world. Christine Mayer danced the faithful Stella and Scott Douglas the confused, well-intending Mitch...
According to legend, King Charles IX of France was brought to his deathbed by his passion for sounding lung-lacerating halloos on the hunting horn. True or not, the fine art of horn blowing was for generations a popular musical diversion of Europe's landed aristocracy and an accepted measure of the virility of its practitioners (Louis XIII boasted he could blow a whole day without weakening). Although blue-blooded huntsmen have long lamented the passing of the horn's heartier days, few have addressed themselves to the problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year...
...Brynner's king is a properly engaging mixture of arrogance and naivete, while a flock of correctly slant-eyed wives and children lends charm and authenticity. Miss Kerr presides over the whole menage with all the grace and, unfortunately, all the passion of an English noblewoman showing off her prize roses...