Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other nights he spends at the movies, laughing convulsively at the cartoons. His one abiding passion besides dancing is music. He has a collection of more than 4,000 records-Chopin, Bach, Callas arias, Scriabin, and every album Peggy Lee ever put out. He never travels anywhere without his portable phonograph. He plays the piano, can listen to almost any classical recording and tell who is conducting...
...Rock" Torrey, whose ultimate mission is to oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal) and an incompetent admiral (Dana Andrews), then has to send the boy on a fateful attack. Big, tough decisions are made and carried out by such luminaries...
Shuttling between her Watch Hill retreat, her winter home in Nassau, her chalet in Switzerland, her 15-room Manhattan penthouse, and her studio in Carnegie Hall, she pursues her vision with an all-encompassing passion. Divorced in January from her second husband, Dr. Benjamin Kean, she bought a four-story brick mansion off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and is renovating it into the Harkness House for Ballet Arts. It will include a workshop and dance school, out of which she plans to form a junior Harkness troupe to tour the small towns...
...Beeson wryly and accurately describes himself as "a little-performed composer." He is apt to continue to be if he insists on composing operas which involve a huge commitment of time and money by anyone daring enough to produce them. Beeson does insist. "It is a crazy passion and there is not much sense to it," he explains, "but I like to write opera...
...Toynbee, son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, and literary critic of the London Sunday Observer, has in fact got so preoccupied with his craft that he has left out the most essential ingredient of the poet's art: passion. Neither Dick Abberville, the old man re-creating in memory his long-dead elder brother Andrew, nor Andrew himself, part "Marvelous Boy," part "romantic ass in diplomatic dress," ever becomes compellingly alive or even psychologically distinct...