Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence. His victories defeated him. Three years before Hitler came to power, Ortega wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...
Author MacKinlay Kantor, who has converted the Civil War into a living as well as a passion (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware), has turned the grisly fact of Andersonville into a huge, massively researched novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for November) which will give Civil War fiction buffs their greatest hour since Gone With the Wind...
...thinking of recent mental panaceas when he mentions in his introduction that the "Nightmares" might better be entitled "Signposts to Sanity." At any rate, his book is unquestionably an effective mental antidote for the neuroses of those who have no wish to be well-adjusted. Russell writes, "Every isolated passion is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as a synthesis of insanities. Ever dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare. . . ." Russell's own solution: that every man summon in his mind a parliament of fears, in which each...
...concerto can be a thorough test of a pianist's capabilities. The full measure of Gilels' musicianship for Americans will come this week, when he gives a Carnegie Hall recital without orchestra. Meanwhile, it was plain that the Soviet pianist is a phenomenal technician with conviction and passion. Leaving the stage after last week's concert, Ormandy was heard to say: "This boy really purifies a work that has become vulgarized through use and misuse. He is one of the greatest...
With suggestions of ancient Greece in Boris Aronson's fine setting, with the neighborhood lawyer (J. Carrol Naish) acting as Greek chorus and talking poetically of the Greek and Sicilian past, A View plainly seeks to evoke the drama's great first home of guilty passion and fatal ignorance. But the play, in all this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies...