Word: passioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure can have one of two effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
...haired, twinkling, courteous Aly Maher Pasha was Premier of Egypt when World War II began. Behind him was a vigorous record as a lawyer, administrator and nationalist politico. Aly Maher Pasha had also found time to indulge a passion for swimming and handsome daughters of Egypt. But when Italy entered the war, Britain found him unsympathetic to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty calling for Egyptian cooperation with the British Army, and King Farouk accepted Aly Maher Pasha's resignation...
India's most pressing need today is for leaders with a more practical view point, because those who speak for India are hopeless visionaries, Ghandi and Nehru have become irrationally possessed, as only an Indian can, with the idea of complete independence for India, and their passion for the idea has blinded them to every practical aspect of their country's quest for freedom, the professor stated...
Rubens' first wife was perfect in every respect save passion; his second, who was 16 when he married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission...
...Sitting very straight, her breasts thrust out, Selma [Burgin] stared at Christina angrily. 'We're not playing a game,' she said, and Canby started at the passion in her voice. 'We're fighting the most powerful people in the world. . . . One just doesn't talk about party membership. I took it for granted you knew...