Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHEEL, by Roger Vailland (179 pp.; Knopf; $3.50). Milan, an interior decorator, and his wife Roberte, come from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take her to bed and give...
...army, and back in the city continues to brawl and rob. At the same time, he proves simpler, more genuine than any of his siblings, although he has difficulty in being able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just hatred for the police; while admitting his wrongdoings, he has suffered brutal torture at their hands, when they tried to make him confess to crimes he didn't commit...
...madonna, an atomic equation and a chemical formula to "represent the changeless and the changing-both in Hesburgh's domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
...Year War. Menon's success with the India League had brought him into contact with Nehru, when he visited England during the '30s. Nehru had little in common with the stodgy, parochial Congressmen in India, found in Menon an intellectual equal who shared his passion for world affairs. Together they toured the trenches of the Spanish Civil War, "watched the bombs fall nightly from the air." After India gained independence in 1947, the new Prime Minister named his friend High Commissioner to Great Britain...
...hotel ballroom, .his beautiful wife is entering a suite in the same hotel to cheer Avery, who has twisted his neck severely by throwing back his head in a Rooseveltian campaign laugh. Duggan bitterly re-creates the scene: the pink, passive hero, the innocent back rub, the tide of passion...