Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of being preserved for posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors...
...worth well over $1,000,000. They, of course, showed fine timing and an expert instinct for opportunity. Through the careers of all the young millionaires runs a golden thread: they determined early in life to devote themselves to accumulating great wealth, and they pursued that goal with uncommon passion...
...went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket." See THE NATION, The Use of Power With a Passion for Peace...
...this: "We must hold to one another across the generations and not allow misunderstandings or specific arguments to separate us. America can do nothing if it is not together, and she is not much if she is not in touch with the hopes of others. One must have a passion for peace, respect for power, awareness of friends. He might even have said, 'Now the trumpet summons us again...
...like walking on pop art," he says. He aligned himself briefly with the COBRA group (TIME, Dec. 12), studied engraving in 1952 with Stanley Hayter's famed Paris Atelier 17, and three years later made a film in Tokyo on Japanese calligraphy. Nothing can quench Alechinsky's passion for scrawling, restless lines, and he collects oldfashioned, fat fountain pens to indulge...