Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru's passion for central planning and controls: "The blood must circulate all over the body, though the brain may regulate...
...this record, drawn from rehearsal disks and tapes,*shows that the passion and honesty he brought to all music could lift the players to a remarkable pitch of performance...
When they are not, in Fiedler's view, "infuriatingly boyish," the masterworks of U.S. fiction, e.g., Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, are sexless. Even in The Scarlet Letter, the "A" might as well stand for anticlimax, for all passion is spent before the novel begins. Instead of depicting love and marriage, the U.S. writer customarily projects a spectral landscape dominated by death, pursuit and flight. The U.S. novel does not derive its power from skill, according to Fiedler, or from its vaunted realism (from Poe to Nathanael West, it is often surreal), but from something...
Tiger Bay. With masterful suspense, the camera moves through a Cardiff slum, following a young sailor who has murdered in disappointed passion, but cannot kill the only witness to his crime...
...hero seemed unlikely enough-an obsessed French dentist named Morel with a passion for elephants. The creation of French Novelist Romain Gary, in his novel The Roots of Heaven, Morel had brooded in a Nazi concentration camp, conceived such a blazing reverence for life that, once freed, he took off for Darkest Africa to become a self-appointed protector of wild beasts threatened with extermination by onrushing civilization...