Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing...
...wanted to fall in love. On a warm September evening, standing on the steps of Widener Library, Elgin Smith "was thinking what it would be like to fall in love, worship a girl and put his life at her feet. He despised because he feared he was incapable of passion.... He was curses in English Literature, German Literature, in literature, in History--ancient and medieval, and every one of them was full of incidents that he thought mocked him, since they seemed to say that the meaning of life, the peak of existence, the core of events was one certain...
...affected him in nature was not its force but its fragility. His paintings could be bright and gay, but almost never exuberant; they could portray sadness or loneliness, but never great grief. Sisley was drawn not to the powerful but to the perishable; he was moved not by stormy passion but by quiet poetry. His favorite part of any landscape, he said, was the sky: "It has the charm of things which disappear. And I love it particularly...
...during twelve years as an actor. Darkly handsome, with black curly hair and threatening eyebrows, he was born in the grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing...