Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such behavior is strange in the political rough-and-tumble. But Knowland has never known any other way to act. The essential to understanding William Fife Knowland is that although he is driven furiously by a sense of destiny, he is always controlled by the traditions of dynasty...
Sukarno may yet be driven to proclaiming the "guided" democracy he has recently talked about, and to taking over the government in his own right. But many Indonesians think that no real solution can be made until Sukarno and Hatta get back together. Mutual friends would like to reunite them, but there are delicacies to be observed. "What do you want me to do?" asked Sukarno. "Hatta didn't even bid me goodbye when he resigned." Says Hatta: "How can I go to the palace without being invited...
...self-portrait) who was a gay yet morbid epicure, a dandy with a death wish who thought he had to die to be truly free. Through the turmoil of world war and revolution, Schnitzler wrote play after play (notably Der Reigen or La Ronde) in which the characters were driven by unconscious impulses and riven by unconscious conflicts...
...descended from Noah's grandson Magyar. The Magyars of Hungary bear no ethnic kinship to their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
Rebellion. The Turks ruled the Magyars for 170 years, and when at last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.* In 1848, when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short...