Word: passions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...token reforms such as limiting the bombing in Vietnam to "selected targets" that have a way of increasing after every protest, or being satisfied with a civil rights movement that still leaves the overwhelming mass of the Negro population in squalor and misery. It is conceivable that our passion may limit our time perspective: that future historians may look back upon those of us who now feel angry as we look back upon the early forerunners of basic social transformation. But if that doubtful consolation awaits us (for the judgment of history is ordinarily what gets into second-rate textbooks...
Begin with the character Reginald Bunthorne, the fleshly poet." Those with a passion for retrospection may recognize here the warm, violet effusion of Oscar Wilde, whose first slight volume of poetry appeared at nearly the same time as the play, in 1881; those without such a passion may recognize friends first met at Advocate discussions of minor poets. No matter the disposition, Stephen Michaels, who plays this fiercely languid lack knee stoop shoulder will be recognized as an actor of surpassing talents. With reed wrists and cuffs that billow to set them off he prances--for God's sake prances...
...that in order to survive in Haiti he would have to become a vegetable himself; revolted by the wretched beggars and savage beatings, he escapes to the safety of the U.S. Burton envies the American's innocence, but he has been affected and infected by Ford's passion to obliterate evil. Thus, when Guinness flees the police and appeals for help, Burton cannot refuse. "I like you," he says, surprised-"God knows why." Next morning the Tontons offer Burton $2,000 and freedom to reveal the whereabouts of his colleague. The weary, dreary reply is inevitable: "Inflation...
...economy, and Director Peter Glenville has tarried with a story that might have been twice as good at half the length. Unlike the novel, in which Greene's obsessive concern with man kind's spiritual underworld is subdued, his scenario seems as overtly moralistic as a passion play...
...passion, which is a dirty word from the Freshman Mixer to the Class Marshal Elections, has reared its dread head. We are being forced to be passionate or, if we choose not, to be anti-intellectual or perhaps immoral or perhaps wrong...