Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat was the Northwest, a region he loves with a sincere passion. He covered 2,200,000 sq. mi. from the Aleutians to upper California and west to Montana and Wyoming. A frugal craftsman, he was disinclined to write one story on one subject for one magazine; instead he broke up each piece of research into three or four fragments, built them into separate stories, and squeezed the maximum possible return out of his reporting...
...Europe and turns up in a sleepy Connecticut town, where he teaches German history at a fashionable prep school and marries the daughter of a United States Supreme Court Justice. Finally, let us imagine that a relentless War Crimes detective traces Hindler to the town, identifies him by his passion for tinkering with clocks, and then waits around examining antiques for a few weeks while the fugitive kills a man and a dog, terrorizes his wife, and is at last grotesquely and ironically destroyed...
...Indian the greatest Indian leader and first Prime Minister is," reflects his sister, telling of his upbringing amid a wealthy family that sent to England for its clothes (Nehru wore European suits until his micros); of Nehru's longstanding passion for chocolate cake, pies and ice-cream sundaes; and of his continuing preference for English friends (like Lord and Lady Mountbatten). "It was Gandhi who once jokingly said, 'When Jawahar talks in his sleep, he speaks in English...
...charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind . . . He was devoid of selfishness . . . generous, humane and noble-minded when passion did not blind him." Wrote Stendhal: "The profile of an angel, the gentlest of manners . . . the most amiable monster that I have ever seen . . . There was much petty vanity, a continual and puerile fear of appearing ridiculous . . . But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment...
...book, young Radiguet told the story of an adolescent schoolboy in World War I who had fallen in love with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...