Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OTHELLO. Playing the Moor of Venice in black face, Laurence Olivier often strikes verbal fire from the kindling poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy, but fails to ignite the smouldering passion of the inner...
...suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly organized enterprise...
...whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate's historic reluctance to restrict debate, Mansfield reasoned: "The Senate will not gag itself by voting to adopt cloture. On the contrary, if the Senate does adopt cloture, it will free itself from the passion and perversity which, since the end of the last session, have held this institution in a deadly strangle hold...
...action took place in the placid reaches of Washington state's Puget Sound country, but the passion-to-poison script read more like one of Georges Simenon's Parisian chillers...
...power was awesome, his speed be yond belief, his touch so delicately pre cise that he could transform the most complicated passages into washes of pure color. And yet technique was not an end in itself; Busoni invariably sub ordinated pianistic skill to musical mean ing. Passion and intelligence were reconciled in sensibility, and in the last years of his life, says Busoni's biographer Ed ward Dent, his performances reflected "the spirit of a seer and visionary" and achieved a "grandeur" amounting to "prophetic inspiration...