Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...uneasy. She uses only one literary trick: unrelenting candor. And the only thing one can be sure of when her novels end is that life goes on. Daughter of a Cuban diplomat father and an Italian mother, Author de Céspedes writes with a Mediterranean mixture of controlled passion and shrugging resignation...
...this dream world of the emancipated woman, something seems to be missing-in fact almost everything. Irene has left the church; yet she envies those women who can sleep with a man and achieve real contrition at confession. Her lover respects her passion for freedom; yet she is resentful because he has never shown a spark of jealousy, and fails to give their affair the color of romance. She is so wrapped up in her independence that she will not admit the womanly advantages of being a dependent...
...came to doubt that NATO would respond to an attack upon a single member, the nuclear power of the individual member would provide an independent deterrent-filling in the gap of uncertainty. One obvious danger: the independent armed nuclear ally might fire off a rocket in the heat of passion and involve the world in atomic...
...ideal school for men who would have no other chance to deal with the furtive gleams of their own minds. There is a breath-taking charm in a system that allows a young mathematician like English-born David Mumford, 22, now at Harvard, to pursue this kind of private passion: "At present I am working on ruled surfaces. These offer an accessible but nontrivial example of the pathology of moduli of higher dimensional varieties-a subject whose development is strikingly neglected...
Apologist Needed. Historian Catton writes of Grant with passion and admiration. Yet he accepts the new evaluation of Grant's superior, General in Chief Henry Halleck, that was strongly advanced by Historian Kenneth Williams in his massive Lincoln Finds a General. Halleck had long been dismissed as a well-intentioned duffer, but Catton, like Williams, concedes that "on balance" he did Grant more good than harm...