Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, stars Donald (The Caretaker) Pleasence. Traveller Without Luggage is a tragicomedy about an amnesia victim. The Plaster Bambino, Sidney Michaels' second entry (with Ben Franklin), is one of the season's most intriguing dramas. The script, about a con man's production of the Passion Play, combines vaudeville, burlesque, music and a speaking chorus...
Died. Murray Pease, 60, conservator of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, one of the world's top art detectives who, armed with infrared film and chemical analysis, waged war against forgeries, in 1945 proved that Andrea Mantegna's signature on the museum's Meditation on the Passion had been painted over that of a lesser-known Renaissance master, Vittore Carpaccio (the museum did not mind: it had three Mantegnas but no Carpaccios, which are almost as valuable); of a heart attack; in Southold...
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The Great Lovers is a documentary largely composed of scenes from old movies starring Hollywood's great gentlemen of passion from Francis X. Bushman to Marlon Brando. Repeat...
...uniforms but with a mutual set of convictions that decry the injustices of war, segregation and cheating hearts. One by one, the cult's high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...
...these stories, Cozzens seems to have dismissed the rebel in favor of a celebration of the structure itself. Human life, bearable at best, is seen as unbearable and detestable when its natural savagery, passion and poetic lunacy are unconstrained by custom or civilizing institution. This view is seldom given a voice in fiction-even in realistic fiction of Cozzens' unfashionable kind. When institutions are matched against idiosyncrasy, writers have a temperamental bias in favor of the private sensibility...