Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield. Milgram is in the business of building houses-and his passion is building them for both Negroes and whites...
...preeminently a social history, filled with anecdotes about men whose involvement in the political life of their times was of a sort without parallel in any other country. For the Action Francaise was a personal movement, not a party; it was an organization built almost solely on individual passion and concern about the destruction of Western civilization at the hands of democratic decadence and communist barbarism. And to save it, the Action Francaise offered not a platform, not a programme, but the example of their devotion to la grande France: France, only France...
...mosaics and began to break up his surfaces with flickering brushstrokes hotly hued like autumn leaves. Anatomical outlines melted in fiery new colors and-as if blinded by noon light-Greene began to paint hallucinatory presences peering through masking blue planes. Color began to operate as symbol: orange for passion, blue for infinity. Departure, done in 1961, contains a dismembered, bony elbow reminiscent of his maimed early figures, but now serving as one of the presences, like intruders into a tranquil world, that sweep in from the painting's edges to perform a ritual in the center...
...Mary Kincaid. an Ann Arbor housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...
...does, of course, and in the grand finale the stallions return to Vienna for a stunning display of dressage. Each of these magnificent animals is an equine Nijinsky, and each negotiates with elegance and passion the figures of the classical school. Producer Disney declares categorically: "These horses are human.'' They are at any rate more intelligent than most of the people connected with his picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well...