Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like skiing, surfing was until recently the private passion of a few bronzed daredevils. But in the past few years, surfing has become something like a way of life for thousands of devotees all along the Southern California coast. Every weekend an estimated 100,000 surfers paddle into the briny on 7-ft. to 12-ft. balsa or polyurethane boards, struggle upright into a precarious balance with nature, and try to catch the big breakers coming...
Sweat & Showmanship. Behind his dark glasses and glittering arsenal of horns, goateed Kirk sweats aplenty, with instinctive showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin...
...Bankrupt Passion. There is no denying the strength and passion of Sevan's rages against the Establishment. In the depths of the Depression of the early -'30s, he saw millions voted to bolster tottering banks and pennies cheese-pared from the dole of the unemployed poor. "Christ drove the moneychangers out of the temple," he snarled at the Tories, "but you inscribe their title deeds on the altar cloth." The trouble was that his fellow Laborites were not really Socialists. When capitalism, in Depression-time phrase, "went bankrupt," Ramsey Macdonald's Socialist government got cold feet...
...said in a Note, "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it... I have been careful to attribute nothing but originality to him." Caesar is, as Eric Bentley astutely observed, utterly devoid of the two types of action traditionally associated with the heroes of melodrama: revenge, and erotic passion. Instead, Shaw transfers the skill in both to Cleopatra. Thus he is already playing around with his thesis that it is woman who pursues man, not the other way around--a theme he would later treat in full, notably in Man and Superman...
...Connecticut Stratfordians thought the Shaw play a valid choice since the title characters were both treated by Shakespeare. But where is this to end? Shall we in future find them putting on Kiss Me, Kate and The Boys From Syracuse? And then Elmer Rice's Hamlet-based Cue for Passion, with afternoon showings of the movie Joe Macbeth...