And, in the person of the unfailingly commanding Kathleen Chalfant, Queen Elizabeth, Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan put in appearances, each intent on appropriating the Passion of Jesus for political gain.
evening, & the 2nd half of Thursday night's Philharmonic concert, under Thomas Schippers, which included Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, String Orchestra, & Timpani & a religious work (commissioned for the opening season of Lincoln Center) called "Sept Reponsdes Tenebres," a miniature Passion, appropriate for the Easter season.
His presentation of religious faith in an aesthetic medium at least provides an opportunity for his readers to make their own leap of faith, by appropriating with inward passion the paradoxical religion of Christianity into their own lives.
She said such programs let students "customize so their learning is appropriate, and follow their passion".
Teenagers generally do not respond well to their parents appropriating their musical passions.
Actively deploying the imagination, then, can generate the entire train of sensations and emotions typical of that passion we deem appropriate, namely the passion in accord with the soul's natural inclinations.
So, for likely the first and last time, I agree with Sarah Palin -- the vitriol in American politics today is hardly unusual -- and given the scope of problems we face, and the level of disagreement, that passion is entirely appropriate.
The long-term consequences of such voluntary, imaginative practice is to reshape our internal bodily "dispositions" so that they produce specific passions under the appropriate, rationally endorsed circumstances.
Aristotle assumes, on the contrary, not simply that these common passions are sometimes appropriate, but that it is essential that every human being learn how to master them and experience them in the right way at the right times.
"I want to convey a sense of warmth and passion, but also be appropriate".
