Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academy, and though he made no secret of his sympathy for the American Revolution, he retained the friendship of George III for most of his life. West was the gentlest of men, and his wife testified that in 40 years of marriage, she had never seen him "in a passion." He was infinitely patient with a somewhat overbearing young student named Gilbert Stuart. He rescued John Trumbull when he landed in jail as an American revolutionary, encouraged him to become the painter of the Revolution...
...Administration has brought much of its trouble upon itself with its passion for political maneuvers and power plays. In his public statements. President Kennedy repeatedly has urged Republicans to join with Democrats in "the national interest." But at the same time, he has sometimes seemed to be seeking more to embarrass Republicans in an election year than to achieve legislation. Prime examples are the President's medical care bill and his abortive effort to create a Cabinet-level department of urban affairs. Result: Republicans have reacted against Kennedy's programs with a party-line unanimity rare in recent...
...emptied the contents of a briefcase at his feet. The President's guard, ever on the alert, quickly drew his sword, but all that he saw was a half-dozen grey mice scampering for safety. It turned out that the intruder was a Venezuelan artist who has a passion for mice, paints pictures of them again and again, and thinks that the Biennale neglects them shamefully. The Biennale-the world's biggest and flashiest art show-managed to open just the same...
...Aldo Calo, 52, can turn out spiky sculptures that look like giant cacti or a cluster of forms tailored to elegance. But he also has a passion for "the free gesture." He often punches his fist through a plaque of wax, which is then cast into bronze. Another "free gesture'' was achieved by smashing a hole through a triangular piece of wood with a sledge hammer...
...George Reresby Sitwell had no Napoleonic dreams; he was much too pleased with himself as he was. His passion was for messing about with the landscape of his native Derbyshire, creating grandiose gardens, installing great sheets of water, commanding elegant distant views. ".Such a mistake," he told Osbert, "to have friends: they waste one's time." Not wasting his own. Sir George did voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures...