Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variety of styles and colors-plus this personal note. Picasso has seldom been more tender than in his first portrait of Marie-Thėrėse Walter, and rarely has he endowed a figure with such regality as in the second portrait of her. The Minotaur is all passion, sad and fierce at once, almost like the master himself, and in the portrait of the woman with the dramatic hat, all conventions of beauty and ugliness are swept aside, as if the artist were intent only in crashing through the skin to get a look inside. In all four...
...really living, is it?" Joss speaking. She is 16, English, carefully brought up, and if she suspects that hockey isn't living she doesn't really know what is. This British adaptation of a 1958 novel (The Greengage Summer) by Rumer Godden describes, with delicacy, irony, passion, poignance, wisdom, melodrama, and all the charm and fragrance of a young girl's rising summer, how Joss begins to live, begins to love, begins to die among the greengage orchards of Champagne...
...PASSION IN ROME (352 pp.)-Morley Callaghan-Coward-McCann...
...most recent book to attain its majority before it left the publisher's delivery room is A Passion in Rome, by Morley Callaghan, a 58-year-old Canadian, whose work has the compelling attraction, to lovers of literary underdogs, of being largely unread. Alfred Kazin, a critic of high reputation, has called its author "a fine artist," and Edmund Wilson, whose stature is even more Olympian, wrote last year that Callaghan's work "may be mentioned without absurdity in association with Chekhov's and Turgenev...
Readers aware of these critical benisons will be baffled long before they finish Passion. Could Kazin have been joking? Is it possible that Wilson does not care much for Chekhov and Turgenev...