Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Under cover of a passion for justice, many South Koreans are busier working off old grudges and personal vendettas than in reconstructing their disrupted state. Fortnight ago a cabal of personal enemies and ambitious junior officers forced the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Song Yo Chan, the man primarily responsible for pressuring ex-President Syngman Rhee out of office without a nationwide blood bath. This week the vengeance-seekers caught up with Rhee himself...
...bellum fate of their region with the universal fate of man, and identify decline with tragedy. Amid romanticized passivity, violence erupts in Gothic melodramas of rape, murder and madness. Among the few exceptions: some of William Faulkner's Negroes, who achieve the dignity of stoic endurance. Unfortunately, the passion seems to be draining out of this school; the magnolias are all too frequently stained with tired blood...
...watches, moves man: an animal among animals, swallowed in nature's hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws of the jungle tribes...
...great deal of Cooper's time, passion and talent was squandered on remote or nonliterary causes. There are pages on the wrongs of Poland, and a lot of fascinating stuff written in an art form that modern communications have destroyed-the epistolary description of family life and public events and personages. Toward the end of his stay in Europe, Cooper grew increasingly restless. He sensed, he wrote, "a disposition to drive me back again into my own hemisphere...
...Olesha once opposed Communism with such explicit passion as to make Zhivago seem like a gentle reproof...