Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TULA. In a first film of faultless artistry, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo studies a still beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue conquers the passion she feels for her dead sister's husband...
Akers joined Marshall Field's Chicago Sun in 1941, and when the Sun merged with the Times in 1948, he was named managing editor. "He had a passion for perfection," says a newsman. "He just wanted a great paper in a hurry." The tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000) did not become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County...
...place is Flushing Meadow, Long Island. There, in the Spanish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Manuela Vargas and her first-rate 16-member flamenco troupe hold forth four times a day. The raw, unbridled passion of their performance tops the fair's entertainment bill. Haughty as a peacock, La Vargas commands with a scowl that would intimidate a bandit. What she doesn't convey with her Goyaesque good looks, arching back and rippling feet, she says with her long serpentine arms and spidery hands...
...have one facet of genius, and only one. I have an infinite capacity for taking pains. My passion is for lucidity. I don't mean simplemindedness. If people can't understand it, why write it? Swift read his stuff to the stable boys...
...Germans are seized on as instant proof that "they haven't changed"-tourist arrogance, preoccupation with titles, heavy humor, gross appetites. There are, in fact, more serious atavistic qualities to be found in German life: authoritarianism in the courts and schools, a tendency to function in groups, a passion for obedience. In his book This Germany, Journalist Rudolf Walter Leonhardt doubts that the past could repeat itself or "that Germans may go insane in the same way twice," but he fears that his countrymen still have a hankering to find scapegoats and suppress dissent. The most controversial current book...