Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...Europe--and the Jews in particular--during the war. While admitting this guilt, many of the people whom I interviewed felt that Germany had largely atoned for its guilt by losing the war and suffering the fate of a divided homeland. Several others, with no small degree of passion, reminded me of the mass obliteration of German cities and the killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians by mass bombing. "If Germany is guilty, then she has paid enough" is the modern German attitude toward her war guilt...
...Harmless Americanism." Flitting from TV studios to college campuses, Mme. Nhu argued her cause with passion. Asked if the six Buddhists who burned themselves alive did not indicate strong opposition to the Diem government, she replied eloquently, "How much stronger is the Vietnamese government, for which so many thousands of people are dying obscurely, not for the sake of publicity...
...born of rich bourgeois parents with a passion for the arts, at 20 published his first volume of poetry, La Lampe d'Aladin. Its success plunged the reedy young poet into the world of Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Many give him credit for scattering ideas in a dozen surrealistic arts, but it will never be clear precisely who inspired (or copied) whom. Of Cocteau's ballet, Parade, Andre Gide wrote: "Cocteau knows the sets and costumes are by Picasso and the score by Satie, but he wonders if Picasso and Satie...
...morn ing. He spends the rest of his day at the Latin American Center for Higher Musical Studies, which he founded in Buenos Aires two years ago to provide a place where Latin composers might study without losing contact with the musical spirit of their continent. Teaching is a passion with him, but it is a passion he permits himself only because it allows him to continue composing. "I write as a spiritual necessity," he says, "and above all I want my work to be understood. The music must reach the public through an interpreter, and a successful work...