Word: passion
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Schama, who will teach three courses this year, including the Corecourse "Lit and Arts C-23, Art and Politics in Europe, 1700-1871," says that history has been a "passion" with him since he was an infant. At the age of seven, he undertook the rather ambitious project of writing "an illustrated history of the British Navy." The result, he remembers, was "highly fictitious...
...early political background by interviewing the Senator's friends and associates in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh and in Helms' boyhood home of Monroe. Boyce was well suited to assess the small-town rhythms of Monroe, with its old courthouse dominating the square and its passion for politics; he was reared in the very similar town of Danville, Ill., seat of the legendary Speaker of the House Joe Cannon. Says Boyce: "Politics aside, I could understand why those who knew Helms as a youth still speak of him with a pride that is only a touch vicarious...
Adjustment to life in Cambridge came easily enough--with one possible exception. His support of the city of his birth is well-known--he dedicated one of his books to three teachers from his public grammar school in Queens--and he has maintained a life-long passion for the home team, the New York Yankees. His passion for Joe DiMaggio and those who followed him in pinstripes has not cooled, despite the distinctly hostile surroundings he has lived in for 14 years. Gould has even been known to wear his Yankee cap to lectures, a move many regard...
Hanover was "a great place for walking. And it was a good time to be in school if you had no money, because in 1935 no one had any money to speak of." Supporting himself by waiting on tables and putting out fires, Kelleher soon discovered his passion, Irish literature and history. "It just plain fascinated me. You could almost say I had a mania for it," he declares. For three years he followed a normal undergraduate course; in his fourth, he was chosen as one of a select few senior fellows and allowed to pursue independent work. "I spent...
Maybe it was his role in the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty that first set his mind to wondering. Danny Kaye was always an armchair maestro, but when he was invited to guest-conduct for the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1954, the idle dream and the classical passion harmonized nicely. Kaye, 68, has since trotted out his tux for guest appearances with symphony orchestras from San Francisco to Stockholm. For PBS's Sept. 23 Live from Lincoln Center performance of the New York Philharmonic, the baton will be passed by Musical Director Zubin Mehta, 45. Kaye does...