Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a large part of his repertory is devoted to music long since committed to his, and most listeners', memory, Von Karajan has also found leisure to become an avid sportsman, often slips off for a week of skiing in the Alps or an afternoon's spin in a rented light plane or a glider. In all these pastimes, as in music, he luxuriates in what he calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede...
...York Herald Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...
...professor scoffs, "He's groping for a comprehensive theory of the universe with Newton's Principia as his ideal." A social relations tutor observes, "His followers are as avid as Marxists." And Pravda replies, "He's a tool of capitalistic warmongers." But while the scholarly tempest brews, Professor of Sociology Talcott Parsons answers for himself--"Heavens, let's not go off the deep...
...TIME, Oct. 3), a Mexico City Volkswagen salesman, known better to the international set as empireless Prince Alfonso Maximilian Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 31, took a camera and delicately lifted the skirt hem of his voluptuous bride, Princess Virginia Ira Furstenberg, 15, to make a different kind of cheesecake shot for avid tabloid photographers...
...Otter. Because the Northwest Indians worked in perishable wood, horn and fiber, few of their surviving carved objects are more than 150 years old. But ironically, this probably is no great loss. Initial contact with the white man, which spelled cultural disaster elsewhere, had a tonic effect on the avid, acquisitive fisheaters of the Northwest. The steel tools they got in trading started a great, final flowering of the traditions of wood sculpture that had been slowly evolving for centuries. Its most spectacular achievement: the giant totem pole that emerged within a century from the small carved house post...