Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSE TATTOO. In a successful revival of Tennessee Williams' tender and funny play, Maureen Stapleton re-creates her role of Serafina Delle Rosa, the widow of a Sicilian truck driver caught between her passion for the memory of her husband and the erotic attractions of another truck driver (Harry Guardino...
FALLA: LA VIDA BREVE (2 LPs; Angel). This short opera is about the short, unhappy life of Salud, a gypsy girl who is cruelly betrayed by her lover and falls dead at his wedding. The gypsy's passion and her pathos are exploited to the full by Spanish Soprano Victoria de los Angeles-unfortunately without much help from supporting singers. Falla's early work is studded with folk dances and flamenco songs, all fierily clicked off by the National Orchestra of Spain, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting...
Picasso never lost his fascination with the human figure, but there are few portraits of the great public of his time. For Picasso to become involved with passion and feeling, he had to know his subjects intimately. As a result, he principally records his own friends, fellow artists, wives, mistresses, children, or dealers and collaborators. Even when his subjects become most mythic-whether huge, sculpted Cycladic heads or etchings confronting fragile female beauties with bullheaded male monsters-the impetus can be traced to concerns in Picasso's personal life. No painter alive has recorded the exact day he falls...
...wealthy whose fortunes collapse, like Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger, rather than those with nothing to lose, who are more inclined to it. Poor health? Physical suffering rarely triggers self-destruction; the incidence among cancer patients is remarkably low. Love? Few really kill themselves for unrequited passion...
...passion in civil rights protests has petered out partly because black-power advocates have forced white students out of their movements. At Berkeley, the Afro-American Student Union even boycotted a "black-power day" conference because some whites helped plan it. Considering the Negro's legal rights mainly established, students at nearly every large urban university-notably Chicago, N.Y.U., Pennsylvania, U.S.C., San Francisco State-are working in Negro neighborhoods on the less dramatic long-range task of helping Negroes exercise those rights. No less than one-tenth of the 88,000 students on the University of California...