Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozens of odd jobs, a night in jail (for belting a police car with cinnamon buns), a day when he hurled the leg of lamb on the family board at his brother Everett, an intense hatred of mathematics, a propensity for big words and public recitation, and a passion for whistling popular tunes...
...poles are stronger, and the tension between them is maintained without crackup through the extraordinary political and philosophical character which the revolutionary colonists gave to the U.S. in its painful years of birth. The Founding Fathers knew or sensed that they were embarking on an epic journey. With a passion for history and political principles unequaled in any group of leaders before or since, they ransacked the political possessions of Western civilization beginning with Greece & Rome-and packed their bags with minute purpose. Much was discarded as unsuited for the future. What was retained out of the long experience...
Fiat was created by the iron will of a flinty, ex-cavalry officer named Giovanni Agnelli, who helped found the company in 1899. Agnelli made Fiat's red racing cars famous at international meets, sometimes driving them himself. Born with a genius for command and a passion for work, Agnelli early saw the advantages of mass production and integration and began acquiring suppliers and outlets for his cars. So shrewdly did he choose that by 1927, when I.F.I, was formed to hold Fiat's investments (and solidify his control), he owned a diversified slice of the Italian economy...
...arsenal included no un-British Activities Committee. He went to the bottom of French revolutionary ideas, explained them in terms his countrymen could understand, sharpened his own opposed principles, and expressed them with clarity and passion. Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his naivete, believed that man had been all good in "a state of nature," and that he was only corrupted by wrong social institutions. Sweep these away, substitute institutions blueprinted by "reason," and man emerges perfect or, at least, readily perfectible...
...insisting that society was losing its soul because it was fascinated by means, forgetful of ends; ("Men, I think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.") Sir Walter Scott, defending Scotland's ancient laws against Bentham's passion for reform, warning that local tradition could not be erased without damage, writing the Waverley Novels as tracts for conservatism, as reminders of the moral debt that the present owed to principles of liberty and order won by the past; Disraeli, the supple and imaginative politician, yielding with brilliant grace...