Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love alone does not govern the play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes...
Though restrained and formal during the taped WHRB interview, McNamara was relaxed and engaging in conversation afterward. His responses were concise, tightly reasoned point-by-point capsule analyses. But his passion for exhausting the possibility of every idea sometimes carried his logic further than he meant to go on the record. And at these points, one of his aides would remind the secretary that if he let the remark stand he would be quoted in such a way on this or that issue; and the secretary would regretfully take it off the record. After one of these reminders, McNamara grinned...
...embers of eroticism by packing him off to bed with her best friend (Romy Schneider). One memorable night, as a storm rages outside, she sees Romy and Peter on a balcony in an alfresco embrace, heedless of wind, rain and lightning. Meanwhile, a murderer fleeing a crime of passion appears on an adjacent roof, and Melina decides to help him. Why? To that question there is a multiple-choice answer: 1) she is desperate for excitement, 2) she is romantic and immature, 3) she is a fanatic sexistentialist, or 4) 10:30 P.M. Summer hits the high mark of silliness...
Sagan knows how to play with the nuances of worldly boredom and the despairing thrusts of passion. Of her seven novels, La Chamade is one of the best and as perceptive as Bonjour, Tristesse. She has added another documentation to her reputation as a precise miniaturist who lucidly fosters a fond romantic delusion-that the French are so tough and realistic that they can be rational even about love...
...relatively short time, and that he now would do better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath the passion and the rhetoric, these two opposing views pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have-and have not-been made by the nation's 21 million Negroes...