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...ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire for a first-class Rembrandt, but also that even rarer creature: a man who pursues great paintings and additional companies with equal vigor, thereby establishing a collector's reputation in both business...
...Master Plan. Through his world of Van Goghs and vegetables, Simon, at 58, moves always with an "anything happen?" frenzy and a vigor that both irritates and impresses those around him. Even Aide Jack Clumeck says: "I cannot imagine spending seven days a week with this fellow. After a threeor four-day trip with him, I have to take a few days off. He is just that intense and probing." As a man of a reflective nature, however, Norton Simon knows that neither activity?nor acquisitiveness?are ends in themselves. "He is not interested in leaving a huge fortune," says...
Gergen explained that reading period the logical time for such rebellion be expressed, since the system is leaving students alone for a express purpose of attacking them renewed vigor after the interne...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Mark Twain's 'Mississippi...
...theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly and glorious old story with new vigor and delight...