Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci, who calls herself a "theatrical person" and a "romantic," says mysteriously: "I am a blue-eyed daughter in a brown-eyed family." She elaborates: "I know I'm very different from the rest of my family. My interests are not the same and my physical appearance is not the same. Sometimes I think I scare...
...rather strong case. For, like all negligence plaintiffs, the Deutsches had the difficult job of proving four elusive claims: 1) that the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of reasonable care; 2) that the defendant failed to perform that duty in the manner of "a reasonably prudent person" who would have foreseen and avoided the consequences; 3) that the defendant's negligence actually as well as legally caused the plaintiff's injury; 4) that the plaintiff suffered real loss or "damage" to be compensated by the defendant...
...each year-5,000 murders and 12,000 accidents and suicides. Since 1900, guns have brought death to approximately 750,000 people in the U.S., considerably more than the 530,000 Americans killed in all U.S. wars. Many of the criminal killings would have occurred anyway-a person bent on murder could always use another weapon-but the easy availability of guns undoubtedly swelled the total...
...instances where Poussin painted a living person, for portraiture was then considered a lowly form, was his self-portrait of 1650. With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes. It is clearly the portrait of the artist as rational philosopher, saying with Cartesian clarity: I perceive, therefore I paint...
...Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward insisted on a guarantee, before he was crowned, that a morganatic marriage would be acceptable. Beaverbrook made clear that he thought the person who really sought this guarantee was the woman whom Edward loved. "I knew my urgings were in vain," he said. "A morganatic marriage was what Mrs. Simpson wanted, and what Mrs. Simpson wanted was what the King wanted...