Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outdoor sports enthusiast-swimming, skiing, surfing-and hate traffic and the mad pace of city life," Frisbie continued. "I've observed too many people who aren't happy, and I think I won't be happy living in the city either. I can't see myself as a computer, and because of that would like to set up a rural law practice somewhere...
Williams appeared at Eliot House last Spring, where her performance brought tears-"of joy, the kind of joy you don't feel much around here," one wet-eyed enthusiast said...
...longtime enthusiast for and avid collector of wristwatches that are more than merely functional, I smiled to see Dr. Dougherty's new addition: the Spiro Agnew Original [July...
That general critique could be writ ten in the margin of Nichols' auto biography. If he is indeed breaking camp, his move is Yossarianic in its scope. Nichols was the original enthusiast of urbane Waughfare. In the '60s he compiled an unbroken string of Broadway smashes. He was a certified Beautiful Person, intimate of Lenny and Jackie, chum of Gloria Steinem, an original backer of Arthur, the slipped discotheque. Twice married, once divorced, once separated, he was the most eligible married male in Manhattan. His upper West Side triplex was decorated by Billy Baldwin. His Rolls waited obediently...
...husband. A ghostwriter by trade (for Mickey Mantle, Jim Brown), Blau had a contagious obsession: Jacques Brel. "I was knocked out when I heard his work," he recalls. "I had never known any songwriter to address himself to the human condition. I began to collect Brel." So did another enthusiast, Composer Mort Shuman, who had assisted at the birth of the rock generation by writing tunes (Viva Las Vegas) for Elvis Presley. Together, Shuman and Blau sifted through Brel's 150-song repertory. They settled on an irreducible 25 for Alive and Well...