Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence of Arabia, at first thought he was a spy, or crazy. He violently urged the raising of a Jewish national army, and personally established...
...first-rate officer, but an enigma and a terror to his men, who call him "Admiral God." He is frightening at inspections, when he wears an ancient Navy cutlass. His sole link with the outside world is the erotic letters he gets from a beautiful wife. His overriding passion is to get his island job done at whatever risk or human cost-and he regards his men as scarcely human, for he hates Negroes...
Shuttling between carnal and romantic love, Serezha discovers a passion more powerful than either: writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
...long time." Its real source, she hinted, was her dissatisfaction over her husband's activities as her private impresario. "I am my own boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...
...biggest casting jobs of the 1960 season was under way. Most of the hopeful male actors were already wearing their makeup-full beards. Every candidate knew what was expected of him because the play was a revival: the 34th run since 1634 of the enactment of Christ's Passion at Oberammergau...