Word: passions
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...Romeo and Juliet was a curious hybrid-neither symphony nor oratorio nor opera. What Berlioz was aiming for was a new amalgam of symphony and opera in which vocal solos, choral and instrumental passages were mixed in loosely linked episodes. In Berlioz' musical shorthand, some moments of highest passion-the passages between Romeo and Juliet-are left to the orchestra alone because it offered "a richer, more varied, less limited language" than would have been possible with words. The soloists and chorus, on the other hand, often serve merely as commentators on the action...
...grimly Methodical way, Wesley roused his ill-fed pupils at 4 a.m., forbade recesses, ignored weekends, decreed a harsh round of Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and math, interrupted only by prayers. Said he: "Those who play when they are young will play when they are old." Wesley's passion for education infected his U.S. disciples when they organized the Methodist Church in 1784. He was shocked at their first effort, Maryland's Cokesbury College, founded by Bishops Coke and Asbury. "I study to be little, you study to be great," he wrote. "I found a school, you a college...
...church, nearly crushed the bride. After cutting the wedding cake, Jackie acknowledged the toasts gracefully, then noted that her mother had always told her to wait and judge a man by his correspondence. With quiet humor, she held up a postcard from Bermuda with a picture of a passion flower. On the back was scrawled: "Wish you were here. Cheers. Jack." "This," said Jackie, "is my entire correspondence from Jack...
...Oxford,* "snob" is not just another four-letter word but a way of being. Class, according to the despairing cry of Poet John Betjeman, is the primary English passion, one that has survived the welfare state and the shrunken horizons of em pire. The subject, class, and the scene, Oxford, form the substance of this depressing but enlightening fictional report on what might be called the Cold War Generation...
...sees in Jesus not man but the Living God, the passage must sound uncomfortably like the kind of sentimentalities spouted by the humanist Devil in Shaw's Man and Superman. Jesus, writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make a new beginning; his lovely humility, his hunger for laughter that is not cruel, his desire for a square deal, his loyalty to friendship, to love...