Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yuri Vladimirov, with his unruly shock of hair and the untamed passion of his dancing, is reminiscent of Rudolf Nureyev. In The Flames of Paris last week, he burst across the stage with a round of incredibly high, twisting jumps, whirled whippet-quick through half a dozen spinning leaps in which his body seemed almost parallel to the stage, then snapped into a one-knee landing that left the audience gasping. Though the lyrical side of his artistry is still maturing, the solid, long-limbed Vladimirov exhibits an aerial freedom and heroic virility that few male dancers can match...
James T. Farrell is the most heroic figure in modern American letters. No one else, in the face of such resolute popular and critical discouragement for so many years, would persist with unsullied vocation so doggedly and prolifically in the lonely and exacting art of fiction. His unrequited passion for literature must be the most gallantly unfortunate affair since an emperor penguin fell in love with Admiral Byrd (and followed him around, hinting with gifts of egg-shaped stones that he would like to join the Navy...
Such varied and provocative approaches to burning social issues are commonplace in Commentary, one of the leading intellectual publications in the U.S. Since its founding in 1945, the monthly magazine has consistently displayed a rigorous self-analysis, a passion for ideas, a stubborn sense of responsibility. All this is amply evident in the new Commentary Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling...
...hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive resistance- "a campaign without booty, to hinder battle, and to discourage the enemy from war." William, on the other hand, came as liberator and earned the name of Conqueror, which he did not want. The realm...
...portrait of Shriver, his seventh TIME cover, is a good example of the qualities for which Shahn is noted: a sureness of line and tone, meticulous attention to detail, but not exactly a passion for photographic likeness. Shahn catches Shriver in a mood at once pensive and bemused, an intent man beset with a maze of problems. "His intention is good," Shahn says of him, "but he can't do it alone...