Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the President strode out of the studio to his car, and was driven out past the Potomac to Washington's National Airport with Mrs. Eisenhower and their son, Major John, who was going to Geneva as his father's aide. From the roadside by the silver river, as the President's car sped by, there came a flurry of applause and cheers...
...driven search has been no inner exploration of himself. It is an outward search for man's greatness. His interest is Man in a world of facts and action, the world's heroes, not its spiritual cripples or its Freudian oddities. To psychiatry's claim, "Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets," Malraux returns a proud answer, "Man is what he achieves...
...problem by becoming a prose writer. His friend Lawrence of Arabia gave him permission to write the first "official" Lawrence biography; on the proceeds of this and of his own Goodbye, Graves was able to settle down on five stony acres in the Spanish island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England develop a much better sense...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...
...work, Harrison often modeled for pictures himself, posing as everything from a white slaver (with pith helmet) to an irate husband spanking his wife. On one project for one of his magazines, Harrison was picked up by New Jersey police (and released) for taking pornographic pictures: he had driven a carload of models to a Jersey golf course and had started taking pictures of them cavorting across the fairways half-nude...