Word: impetuousity
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"You Talk More." Charlie Wilson had an inventive mind. The son of Ohio schoolteacher parents, he went to work for the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. in Pittsburgh as an 18?-an-hour apprentice engineer, by the time he was 22 had designed Westinghouse's first auto starter and was...
"John Adams would have been a 'character' at any time or in any part of the world...The information in the diary may in the end be judged secondary to its picture of a remarkable human being--self-important, impetuous, pugnacious, tormented by self-doubts and yet stubborn to the...
Project by Project. From the beginning, Brazilians could not help admiring Quadros' directness, his humor, his resistance to compromise, his un-Brazilian talent for chopping red tape. But he seemed to have no overall goals. Editorial writers questioned his ''unplanned and impetuous" administration. "Quadros distrusts abstract planning...
To Ojai's festival director, Composer Lukas Foss,the Second String Quartet is not only "not easy" but also "rather astonishing-an opinion shared by most people who have heard it. The astonishment derives in part from the fact that Modernist Composer Carter treats his four instruments as individuals...
So begins a fresh, charming, witty piece of intellectual slapstick, a two-reel silent spoof of modern painting that is just as funny as Day of the Painter (TIME, Sept. 12) but much more subtle in comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker...