Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company's repertory ranges from the raw brutality and passion in Talley Beatty's classic jazz ballet, The Road of the Phoebe Snow, to the chillingly abstract study of loneliness in Anna Sokolow's Rooms. Ailey's own Roots of the Blues and Revelations are danced with savage grace and élan. Roots traces the evolution of the blues from the barrel houses of New Orleans to the speakeasy era; Revelations, drawing on Negro spirituals, evokes the hope and despair of a beleaguered people...
...worth reviving as one of the best of Amado's books, which have been published in 31 languages, ranging from Icelandic to Persian. Though he writes in a far more contemporary idiom, Amado is properly considered the Mark Twain of Brazil, and he shares Twain's passion for small-town manners and morals, for scoundrels and card sharps, and for the pomposity of backwoods society, and its pitiable efforts at a cultural life...
...well as Europe -was described in 1927 by a French intellectual named Julien Benda in a book titled The Treason of the Intellectuals. The "treason" did not consist of disloyalty to their nations, as Benda saw it, but in the fact that intellectuals had abandoned detachment for political passion, and stopped thinking independently. While many intellectuals saw themselves as lonely rebels, heresy became a group affair, and protest turned into a community sing. Alternately repelled and fascinated by violence, dreaming both of power and of justice, intellectuals overwhelmingly (if not unanimously) embraced Marxism as the hope of the future. They...
...accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some sprightly table talk about the anchovy sauce served on British trains. Next day, while Harrison's horse wins the Gold Cup, Harrison's wife loses herself to Purdom in the Rolls. Milord and milady ride home afterwards, exchanging scarcely a look, but telling all that needs...
After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called...