Word: tirelessness
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...conference to hear new evidence, but after a self-proclaimed "abductee" reneged on his promise to take a polygraph test, the federal attendees left the gathering, skepticism intact. That didn't deter conference organizer Allen Hynek, founder of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., and a tireless campaigner to legitimize the field of "UFOlogy." "We need to stop arguing the existence of eggs and get down to cooking the omelet," he told TIME that year. (See the mankind's greatest explorations and adventures...
...Thomas Hoving held many jobs, but in all of them he played the same role: tireless showman. Over the years, Hoving was a city parks commissioner, a magazine editor, an author and a television correspondent - and to each of those tasks, he brought his superabundant energies, look-at-me narcissism and gleefully roguish manner. But in one job, he left the world a changed place. In his 10 years as director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hoving, who was 78 when he died of cancer on Dec. 10, didn't just transform the Met. He remade...
...She’s tireless,” Stone said. “That goal came out of pure guts and tenaciousness. That’s what we were looking for when we recruited her, and that’s what we hope to get from her for the next four years...
...years just before and after the start of the First World War, in 1914. That was when the multidirectional Czech painter Frantisek Kupka and the austere Russian Kazimir Malevich were in their different ways achieving escape velocity on canvas. And so was Kandinsky, who would become the most tireless apostle of an art that answered to nothing in the merely material world. Born in 1866 to a prosperous Moscow family, Kandinsky spent his 20s studying law and economics, all the while bending toward another calling. He was the sort of young man who could be sent into ecstasies...
...fact over rumor and straightforward prose over snark. His staccato dispatches almost always began with a cheerful "Good Morning." Toward the end of his career, after Archerd had traded in his typewriter for a computer, Variety rechristened him "Hollywood's original blogger"--a title that perhaps best describes his tireless approach to covering what he called "the most exciting city in the world...