So now a "good rage" of long-thwarted passion fires his nation's writers.
A great passion fired up the Photo League, a group of mostly young New York photographers who, beginning in the 1930s and right up until the group's abrupt end in 1951, believed that they could change the world with their cameras and the righteousness of their own beliefs.
The Armani aroma Mania is billed as "a woody oriental fragrance aimed to appeal to the passion, fire, mystery and sensuality of women's emotions".
"It had its ordeals by sickness, passion, fire, bereavement, imprisonment, false accusation and revolution, and it was played out against the most disturbed years in England's history, a period as intellectually thrilling as it was dangerous and bloody".
The courtly lover, however, while displaying the same outward signs of passion, was fired by respect for his lady.
But those who wish to fire religious passion can still do so.
Maurice Richard, his great rival among the 9's of hockey, was the Rocket: his fire and passion can still be distilled from ancient video and collective memory.
Perhaps I haven't heard from him because he's been so busy stirring up passions around the world, firing up crowds who invoke him by different names to kill their fellow man as the eternal quarrel rolls on.
But, as was seen in East Timor, where 25 years of Indonesian occupation equaled 25 years of war, it is a policy that may only postpone the end game by firing separatist passions.
But Odets' passion no longer fired Cary Grant to make business decisions.
