Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifelong socialist. Yet now you are relying on market mechanisms, privatization, letting prices and interest rates find their own levels. It looks like an economic philosophy closer to Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's. What's socialist about...
Fairbanks, who was White's tutor and helped spur his lifelong interest in China, recalled White saying that "he had not come to Harvard for the elms or the banks of the Charles...but rather... `to get this badge which says veritas but which means...
...Sister Grace, a conservatively dressed woman with gentle blue eyes and short brown hair, helping the poor has been a lifelong ambition. As a child growing up in New York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift...
...Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into the national visage that is the Mall." George Crocker, the classic warrior-aristocrat, is far removed from that fray. He distinguishes himself in combat, rises to lieutenant colonel and becomes the liberator of Grenada, a John Wayne figure "doing...
What makes Arnowitt's undertaking so notable is that he is performing each of the sonatas to coincide chronologically with the age Beethoven was when he composed them. As the German composer wrote his last sonata when he was 52 years old, Arnowitt's project is truly a lifelong undertaking...