Word: grows
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...view--the sheer pleasure of accumulation. "He views money as basically a way of keeping score," says Lowenstein, "a way of measuring his success." While a boy, Buffett told a friend, "It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow." As Lowenstein puts it, Buffett acquired while growing up "an overly reverent view of money's proper role, as if spending were a sort of sinfulness." Years later, on a tour of San Simeon, the William Randolph Hearst mansion in California, Buffett grew impatient with a guide and blurted...
...March, his experiments were carried aboarrd the Shuttle Endeavor STS-67. However, because of a refrigeration problem, the crystals didn't grow very well...
...kids, we will never know for sure. Either way, she was an extremist in the cause of love, and her sons, horribly enough, were human sacrifices to it. "Good" women put the children first. They forgo disruptive romantic entanglements; if necessary, they endure loveless marriages until the kids grow up. This is what Susan Smith would have done if she had any capacity for conventional feminine virtue: stuck by her philandering husband, and of course refrained from fooling around herself. Not that the children would necessarily have had an easy time of it. Women who sacrifice everything for the kids...
...many Americans--who are by no means the "cultural elite" that conservative rhetoric invokes with such shrill banality--it already does. Of course, the defunding of the endowments isn't going to kill off the arts in America. Painters, dancers, actors are tough as weeds and can grow in cracks in the concrete. There was great art, drama, writing and scholarship in America before 1965, when the endowments were founded. Dedicated people create ingenious strategies of survival for themselves. But why should they have to? By what meanness, through what smug Philistinism--and, above all, on what actual evidence...
Never rigid, Rosen's ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains six pieces--by Chopin, Schumann and Liszt--whose historical importance he discusses as well. One highlight is Rosen's commanding performance of Liszt's terrifyingly difficult tour de force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that...