Word: passioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something that characterizes my life," he says, "it is that I have had to struggle with the world's dramatic future-the future always tending to shake the ground of the present on which I had my feet." Far into the night, Ortega still struggles with a "passion which is the most vivid I find in my heart. I would call it intellectual love...
Politics, Lancaster found, is a Greek passion rather than an onerous civic burden, and politicians "enjoy a regard which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the composer of the work in progress having informed the orchestra that the next 25 bars of his tone-poem represented the triumph of democracy over Fascism, all the strings got up and cheered and the brass and percussion walked out in a rage." The woodwinds (who in Greece "are almost...
...crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief client and business partner eventually gets done...
...Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back...
...their limitation. Speaking of Irish writers generally, he once remarked that they had come from poor households, and there was a side of life they did not know. Their romance, he said, could only "be made out of what we have-rags and bones, moonlight, limed cabins, struggle, the passion of our people, a bitter history, great folly, a sense of eternity in all things, a courage 'never to submit or yield...