Word: avidity
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Ultimate Voyeur. So avid is his camera that anything goes at The Factory, his New York City studio. He wants to "show people honestly," says Ultra Violet, "whether they are homosexuals, drug users or drunks." He is accused of glorifying the ugliness he depicts, but Ingrid Superstar defends him. Says she: "He likes to sit behind his sun glasses and observe the world." If so, Warhol is the ultimate voyeur...
Hardest budget of all to pin down is Kennedy's. In addition to paying for a three-floor Washington headquarters, an army of arm-twisters and saturation-of-publicity media-not to mention his bill for the dozens of cuff links seized by avid admirers-Bobby in Indiana, Nebraska and California has rented trains at a total cost of $8,700. No one has even attempted to reckon the cost to Kennedy of supporting the 13 relatives who are campaigning for him in the field, but their daily phone calls home must cost-by anyone else's standards...
...extended constitutional rights to young offenders. His compelling advocacy seems certain to increase his judicial reputation. Indeed, it would seem that his move to the court has only one serious drawback. The workload is even heavier than it was in private practice. As a result, though he is an avid and expert amateur violinist, he has reluctantly had to cut back his practice schedule...
...Wicker argues that Lyndon Johnson was even more victimized by the "ebullience of power." As a firm believer in "the domino theory" of Communist aggression, Johnson privately vowed two days after Kennedy's death: "I am not going to lose Viet Nam." But as a Southerner who was avid to rise above sectionalism, Johnson had a passion for reflecting the broadest possible national consensus, which lured him into running as a peace candidate and stating publicly in 1964: "We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys." According to Wicker, this "green light...
...came, they considered their relationship to the administration, as they knew it, a violent one. Or, at least, they held Kirk responsible for actions they considered outrageous while not considering his perspective. It is because most students at the college shared this mood of anonymity that they became such avid opponents of an administration which could not understand their tactics...