Word: amiel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Trainer Rutchick listened to the radio account of the race, Owner Jack Amiel, a gruff, bluff Broadway restaurant owner, was having the time of his life in Louisville. In ten years as an owner, Amiel has never before had a "big" horse. He bought Count Turf at the yearling sales-for only $3,700-because "he looked like Count Fleet." After the Count's triumph, Amiel phoned his wife and tearfully told her: "He won it all by himself, Ethel-you'll see it in the movies, Ethel...
...Swiss philosopher Attlee quoted was Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), professor of esthetics and philosophy at Geneva, whose one book, Amiel's Journal, influenced many 19th Century British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...