Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many ex-prisoners, but of telling her story of good and evil to Russia and the world. As her husband observed, "You just aren't very good at hating " How striking is the difference between Ginzburg's account of the camps and that of Solzhenitsyn, whose governing passion in the writing of The Gulag Archipelago was an unconquerable rage. No outsider in the West can hazard a judgment as to why the experience of the Gulag should have softened the heart of one prisoner while it hardened the purpose of another. Unquestionably, both pieces of testimony contain their...
...cool inflections of his passion, however, keep the songs strong and upright, buttressed both by a flair for elegant concert showmanship and a voice that sounds like Frankie Lymon with a college education...
Wesley Marans, 53, a Boston real estate developer who has bought up 5,000 inscribed photos over the past 14 years, many for less than $4 apiece. (Current estimated value of those in the exhibition: $97,000.) Marans' rationale for his passion serves for the show as well: "Signed pictures given to friends and admirers tell us how the individual saw himself and wanted to be seen by others...
...mournful drama had taken on all the predictable ritual of a Passion Play. First came the terse announcement that Raymond McCreesh, 24, an inmate of the Maze Prison, had become the third Irish Republican Army hunger striker this month to take "his own life by refusing food and medical intervention," as the British government officially put it. Then came the rioting through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week...
Just as rudely, a Japanese novel interrupts. An innocent student literally trips into the lustful arms of the mother of his beloved. Crouched behind separate panels, the daughter and her father watch silently as the passion progresses-while ever so symbolically the ginkgo leaves fall in the garden. By avoiding eye contact with everybody, including the mother, the sensitive young man saves face all around...