Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exotic and Erotic. Throughout the history of art there have been such painters of intellect, but there have always been, too, those who paint only with passion. Had Delacroix not been the illegitimate son of the influential Talleyrand, he might not have had so easy a time getting his work shown, and even so, he shocked as well as awed. Battles intrigued him, massacres fascinated him, the combination of blood and splendor, of luxury and pain, seemed to inspire him. In his mind, he traveled over India and the Near East, filling it full of glittering jewels, gilded swords, muscular...
...great. What makes the difference? "To be great." says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Donald B. Effler. "a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights...
Elaine de Kooning, the amicably separated wife of the famous Willem de Kooning, is an abstract expressionist to whom portraits "have always been a passion." Her pictures are hardly the sort that a board of directors would buy to put in a frame marked, "Our Founder...
...Sitz im Leben (life situation) of individual Gospel passages, form critics conclude that some can be judged factual accounts - but others are clearly not to be taken literally as records of events in Jesus' life. Many form critics agree that the detail-laden narratives of Jesus' Passion are derived from eyewitness accounts. But the story of the Magi, and Matthew's account (27: 51-53) of the disturbances that took place in Jerusalem after Jesus' death, appear to be folk tales that were devised to impress the faithful with the magnitude of underlying events. Form criticism...
When Whatmough speaks of his career he immediately communicates his passion for the University. He has found Harvard "a glorious old place." "It has allowed me to do what I wanted in the way in which I wanted--not without kicking up dust, mind you, but that, too, is one of its glories." More than this, Whatmough respects the idea of a university as a place where minds can come together in free inquiry and free expression. He calls the Church and the university "the only two institutions that have any chance of immortality." Thus one sees in his outspokenness...