Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passion for seclusion is justified, he feels, because he works so hard. "My first phrase is always a monster .. . Everything has to be rewritten." Moreover, he says: "Write ... if you must, but for God's sake don't talk about it." For 20 years, Martin du Gard wrote and rewrote The Thibaults. Once he threw away a whole volume when he decided it would weaken the cycle. In 1940 the last volume, Epilogue was published...
Last week, newspaper readers learned that Father Feeney's passion for overdoing things had landed him in ecclesiastical hot water. First, he burst into print with an impassioned defense of the three Boston College laymen teachers who had been fired for teaching doctrine "contrary to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church" and for accusing their Jesuit superiors of heresy (TIME, April 25). Their uncompromising stand that there was no possibility of salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church, wrote Feeney, was the true doctrine - whatever the Baltimore Catechism or his fellow Jesuits might...
...Robert Hall figures are carefully kept under the hat of U.M. & M.'s President Jacob Schwab, a shy, cold-eyed man with a passion for obscurity. His name usually gets into public print only once a year, when the U.S. Treasury lists him as one of the highest-paid executives in the , U.S. The latest list put his salary & bonus in 1946 at $440,542, third in the payments so far reported...
...remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose judgment did not spring from logic but from sense...
...producers decided to try religion when they got hold of a four-hour Cinecolor film of the annual Easter sunrise passion play put on as an Oklahoma hillside Oberammergau by citizens of Lawton, Okla. Babb & Jossey trimmed the film and added some homey fictional sequences fore & aft, starring a six-year-old "find" from Atlanta, named Ginger Prince ("42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern charm...