Word: broodingness
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Sometimes the incarnations compete. In the early film versions, Ian Fleming's James Bond became Sean Connery. Then Bond turned into Roger Moore. Convinced that Bond was Connery, some moviegoers dismissed Moore as an impostor. Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He...
Will the Baby Boomer's Monte Carlo stash someday rival the $60 million Borg is alleged to have there, or will he become just another tennis courtier, serving (and volleying to) its true monarchs? The problem of predicting arises from the ambiguities inherent in any Wimbledon victory and from the...
What goads them? What makes former Harvard Oarsman Tiff Wood keep training into his 30s? Why does onetime Yale Rower John Biglow ignore severe back pain to continue his training? Why is Brad Lewis, a brooding Californian, so determined to beat the Ivy Leaguers at their own sport? Certainly it...
I am an American, Chicago born," opens Saul Bellow's early masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March, "and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." For nearly six decades, Bellow kept that vow...
On Washington's birthday in 1946, after brooding alone at the Moscow embassy, Kennan summoned aides and began dictating a 5,540-word cable, divided into five sections like a Puritan sermon, that called the containment of the Soviet Union's expansionist instincts "undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has...