Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. William C. de Mille. 76. veteran playwright (Strongheart, The Warrens of Virginia) and motion picture director (Craig's Wife, Passion Flower), onetime (1941-53) head of the University of Southern California's drama department, brother of Producer-Director Cecil B. De-Mille and father of Choreographer Agnes de Mille; in Playa del Rey. Calif...
...There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self...
Israel's position in the Middle East today is almost as precarious as it was in 1948, when her armies fought desperately to keep the new state from being pushed into the Mediterranean. Arab leaders all over the Middle East talk with increasing passion of a coming "second round" and the final defeat of Israel, the "cancer in the body of the Arab world," as Egypt's General Naguib phrased it. At present Israeli military strength is probably sufficient to repay any Arab attack with interest. The balance of military power in the Middle East may be shifting slowly toward...
...University chose McCurdy to assist famed Jaakko Mikkola, whom he recalls as being "a great gentleman whose passion was track." When Mikkola died in 1952, the year he was to retire, the University made an understandable choice, naming his colleague and good friend Bill McCurdy head track coach...
...native, served as a liaison officer with the French in World War I. When World War II began, Churchill chose Spears as his personal representative to the French government. He became a sort of overloaded Hermes whose duty it was to convey to France the untranslatable fire and fighting passion of his master in Downing Street...