Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards, however lucidly set or economically met, are by no means the whole of art, and the 20th century has produced at least three painters who rival Matisse in importance: Wassily Kandinsky (for daring), Paul Klee (for imagination) and Pablo Picasso (for passion). Picasso, the only one still living, has always been more easily bored than the others, and has always come back bursting with new beauties. If much of his work is mud, the best is thunder and lightning which makes Matisse's rainbow splendor seem a bit thin by comparison...
Actress Kim Stanley, 29, belongs to a growing school of young stage people (Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page) whose particular brand of acting is laughingly called The Method. There is seldom any eye-rolling madness in this methodism: the actor does not tear a passion to tatters. Instead, he digests the role slowly, bit by bit, until he feels that he is truly the personality he is portraying...
President Eisenhower last week named John Von Neumann, 50, a cheerful, portly professor with a passion for cookies and ionospheric mathematical problems, to be a member of the Atomic Energy Commission for a five-year term. Mathematician Von Neumann,* a Budapest-born naturalized American, has been a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study for 21 years, and is a close friend of Drs. Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He and his unique theories and formulas are the talk of economists and mathematicians the world over...
...best, the original Carmen is pattern passion: a rose, a flame and a blade, woven into drama as formal as a Spanish dance. In Carmen Jones the dance is a ring of savages in firelight, jumping any way the devil pulls the strings, terrible and beautiful and simple as God's chillun without their wings...
...best, they speak of a "miracle of faith," at worst of "blind fanaticism" mixed with greed. The word crusade is becoming fashionable again, but few 20th century men can imagine a faith as real, natural and all-inclusive as life itself, so that heroism and villainy, love and war, passion for God and passion for politics could all find room...