Word: limitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, but they are allowed to exchange visits), Frobe was a violin prodigy and opera-set designer before he turned actor. During World War II, the man now cast as a German general never rose past the rank of corporal. He is convinced, however, that his empathic powers are limitless, for no role has eluded him yet. "I cannot stand on my hands," he says, "but I feel certain that if I were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands, I could do it." His Paris Burning producers, he recalls, wanted him "to speak French...
There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New York, propel his autobiography, Yes I Can, to the bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub...
Badge of Status. Despite the new competition, most card-company executives predict an almost limitless market for credit carding. Bank of America Vice President Kenneth V. Larkin says that only one in every seven families in California now has a credit card, estimates that one out of three-possibly even two out of three-is in a good enough economic position for card ownership. Thomas W. Gormly, senior vice president of the Pittsburgh National Bank, predicts a new era of credit-card merchandising, believes that the U.S. is already a "long step toward a cashless and checkless society." Dags...
...Perforce there are limits in me, in my mind and in my character; if not, I would not exist. Limitation is the condition of existence; therefore God, who is limitless, cannot exist...
Wallace's new gambit is based on his apparently limitless ego, his surprisingly strong showing in the Maryland, Wisconsin and Indiana presidential primaries last year, and his belief that a third party might stand a chance...