Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trooper in Skirmishes. Thanks largely to his passion for unadorned fact, to his careful homework (he likes to field questions without having to whisper to aides for an answer), and to his polite and unruffled demeanor, Dillon proved to be one of Ike's most valuable troopers in skirmishes with Capitol Hill. He is not a man to make memorable quotes, but accomplishes more by not drawing attention to himself. One time he did not entirely escape the limelight was during the U-2 spy case last spring. Christian Herter was at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting...
...small band of men with a passion for anonymity and public service last week slipped $35 million to a tiny branch of Princeton University: the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which has a graduate student body of only 30. It was probably the biggest anonymous gift in the history of U.S. higher education. It was certainly the biggest gift in Princeton's 215-year history, and bigger than the total endowments of all but some 30 U.S. colleges...
Peter Lanyon, 43. Living in the harsh hills of Cornwall, Lanyon studies land and sea by foot, car and snorkel, but his passion is to float silently overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...
...means to speak French, the main tie is still with Paris, and even the Poles have not always escaped being more stylish than profound. But if the splashy oils, crumpled collages and floating, ambiguous forms often suggest bolder and earlier experiments by better-known painters in the West, the passion and verve behind the paintings is pure Polish. Says Curator Selz: "Their unusual inventiveness, undogmatic attitude and spontaneous vitality make them worldly sophisticates-as much citizens of the world of art as they are citizens of Poland...
...into Slosson's oversubscribed classes. Wise, witty, lucid, Slosson lectured without notes, never failed to light the present with the past. Author of more than a dozen history texts (the best: Europe Since 1815), he was an intrepid writer of letters-to-the-editor, had a passion for publicly debating political extremists from left to right (e.g., Gerald L. K. Smith), and once unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in a heavily Republican district. Slosson was one professor who professed...