Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without the excitingly "chesty" low notes that are the stock-in-trade of so many mezzos. Her singing of the Spanish group was of course expert--all done with lovely tone, the right moods struck and the vocal difficulties encompassed. Yet there was none of that real vibrance and passion which alone can make these songs engaging, none of the personal excitement provided-if we can judge by her recordings-by the great Conchita Supervia...
...impossibility of later uniting music and tragedy under the Greek model, he noted, lay in the ancient idea of fate. Men saw necessity no longer springing from the god Dionysus, but from passion itself; and "with our theme being thus completely recast, it comes to face different considerations." Music then became important to tragedy because its "rhetorics" are "surely the most intimate consort to the presentation of the passions...
...sudden invasion by the Red Chinese, which penetrated nearly 40 miles into Indian territory, has profoundly shaken the government of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and forced a drastic change in India's role in Asia and the world. India is still a long way from giving up its passion for neutrality. But the country is now angrily fighting off the kind of attack that, when suffered by others in the past, Indians always tried to talk away with smug moral platitudes. At least some of the country's illusions about peace, war and Communism are beginning to fade...
Sewanee still does play smalltime football,* but the real passion at the small (700 men) Episcopal school is for the classics. Latin and Greek are big, and to reinforce the Oxonian atmosphere, upperclassmen who make good grades wear black academic robes to all classes. The school leads the South in per capita production of Rhodes and Fulbright scholars...
...hold Mr. Steinbeck's own opinion," said William Alfred, associate professor of English. "It was an 'amazing choice.' It isn't that I disrespect Steinbeck, but I don't think he's done anything since the '30's, when a passion of his happened to coincide with a passion of the world...