Word: boundlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not original theater is actively, albeit covertly, discouraged at Harvard, it undoubtedly has not been encouraged in the recent past. Boundless enthusiasm, confidence and energy, combined with craftiness, financial sense and the ability to enlist help from all sides, tied up with pullable strings, have been the prerequisites for bulldozing an original show through all the red tape and arbitrariness that clutters up the path to production. And unless authors and composers--who very often are not accepted "theater people" with ready made connections--are already wired in to one organization or another, the alternative for the sake...
...science too, a technique, an art, that sways among these categories as Mahomet's coffin does between heaven and earth, at once a union of all contradictory concepts: primeval, yet ever new; mechanical in operation, yet effective only through the imagination; bounded in geometric space, though boundless in its combinations; ever-developing, yet sterile; thought that leads to nothing; mathematics that produces no result; art without works; architecture without substance, and nevertheless... more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages ... to slay boredom...
ANTHONY'S ENERGY and commitment was boundless. During the 1850s she spent three years traversing New York State (her home state), collecting signatures for petitions demanding woman's suffrage and the passage of the Married Woman's Bill. She charged from town to town, organizing town conventions and meetings, many of which were repressed by the machinations of the local government, and sometimes physically disrupted by town thugs...
...WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Richard M. Ketchum. 275 pages. American Heritage. $25. "I am embarked on a wide Ocean, boundless in its prospect and from whence, perhaps, no safe harbour is to be found." The message has a contemporary ring just now, but its words were offered in June 1775 by George Washington after he agreed to become the first commander in chief of the new Continental Army. With textblocks and many illustrations, plus graceful historical essays, Editor and Popular Historian Richard Ketchum creates a sound and extraordinarily detailed portrait of the man and his times during the years...
...glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when I don't work." Among the points he made in the interview...