Word: passioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laborers . . . are anything but resigned and sullen prisoners. Once over his astonishment that he is being treated like a human being and given more food than he has probably had for some time, the Jap undergoes a rapid readjustment. Often he becomes a happy-go-lucky prisoner with a passion for horseplay, cigarets, American slang and swing tunes. . . . Each prisoner is allotted five native cigarets daily, but they would gladly trade them all for an American cigaret. Their favorite expression...
Less than a month after Robert Ralph Young finally battled his way to full control of the rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway System (TIME, Dec. 28), the top executives of two of his four roads bowed to his consuming passion for debt reduction...
Playing variations on this theme, Dr. Hanson implied connections between dissonance and passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...
Milena's pictures revealed a smooth, sculptural quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste...
...college friend, the general in his passion...