Word: inventive
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...adulation, the lionizing, came precisely at a moment when he had determined "to present himself . . . in moral masquerade" and to invent fantastic stories about the viciousness of his nature. "His voice," said a Mrs. Opie with gushing horror, "was such a voice as the devil tempted Eve with; you feared its fascination the moment you heard it." "His head," noted a Miss Berry, "begins to be turned by all the adoration . . . especially [that of] the women." Byron himself summed it up succinctly, triumphantly. "I have made them afraid of me," he said...
...slouching walk, Brubeck is constantly tense. Unlike other musicians, jazz players of Brubeck's type cannot simply sit down and play from memory or from the sheet: since they never play a piece the same way twice, they are under the constant pressure of having to invent music...
...replacing the quill around 1800 A.D., the world thought it had chipped and scratched its way to some kind of penman's peak. But steel pens could be pushed no faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had tried and failed to invent a machine that would write faster. The 52nd, Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, succeeded. And in its own way, the typewriter started as big a revolution as the mass-produced Ford...
...suspect that is more the fault of O'Neill than of the present director. Mr. Heffron's real failing is a ragged second act that not only seems never to end, but shows no intention of trying. Had Mr. Heffron exerted his right here to cut the script and invent some business for the apparently rooted actors, he would have done real service...
Farewell to Chiseling. German-born Hans Goldschmidt, who earned his doctor's degree in administrative engineering at the University of Berlin, set out in 1945 to invent the machine that would make his fortune. He was earning good pay as a time-study man at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond. Calif., but he expected the job to fold after war's end, and he did not want to go back to chiseling out a bare living in a one-man woodwork shop, as he had done in his first few years in the U.S. Recalling a newspaper article...