Word: passionately
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Next to his sense of duty-which is deep, and has kept him sitting hour upon hour in the Senate, through endless speeches and formalities-is Mr. Wallace's passion for the Good Neighbor Policy...
...British Empire fights for its life, its little private dramas-often almost as stylized as British tweeds-continue. One recurrent pattern, frequently put on paper by Somerset Maugham, is that of the Britons in India or the Far East whose ultra-British correctness is suddenly upset by tropic passion. Last week in East Africa a typical Maughamesque story appeared to be coming to feverish life...
...release) arrived in the U. S. following its tail. Produced during the heyday of the French cinema four years ago, it sired a Hollywood duplicate, Algiers, which finally wakened cinemaddicts to further charms of Hedy Lamarr, who, as Hedy Kiesler, had audiences gulping at her nude prancing and purple passion in the foreign-made Ecstasy...
...reasonable to expect some focussing, some more intense realization of implications in a poem of this sort. I think it almost providentially apt that Philip Horton, in a book review in this same issue of the Advocate, criticizes a number of young American poets for their "lack of authentic passion and real thought, the failure either to present the material in its full immediacy or to digest in some degree its significance...
...sense of personal Honor. In some Southern types the result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil War was Armageddon...