Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at less than 100 m.p.h. was surely the most glorious stunt of the century-one of those pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from Minnesota. When he died of cancer of the lymphatic system last week at age 72, America lost not only one of its pioneers of the machine age but perhaps...
Like Roth, Peter Tarnopol, the narrator of his main story, is a hater of patterns, above all the repetitions of success. "The golden boy of American literature" at 26, Tarnopol has "a boundless belief in my ability to win." Why not? He has "never before been defeated." Graduated summa cum laude from Brown after a triumphant Yonkers boyhood, he manages to convert Army service in Germany into a prizewinning novel, A Jewish Father...
...insist that Kissinger's success is built mainly on naked power politics, as is Soviet foreign policy. "He is a troublemaker out of the 19th century," snaps a ranking French Gaullist. In fact, Kissinger has created a novel personal approach to diplomacy fashioned primarily out of self-confidence, charm, boundless energy, humor when applicable, and an ability to grasp what Kissinger, the once?and perhaps future?scholar, calls "the historical process...
...Paul managed to work his feelings out, but not without going through a period of "total confusion." "I was terribly nervous. I smoked a lot, and my grades were terrible. But eventually it all came together." Paul speaks with self-confidence, energy and his interests seem boundless. He feels that he is much happier since he came...
...that lay between Edward Steichen's birth in Luxembourg and his death in Connecticut last week, he had become the most justly famous photographer in America: a patriarch in reputation and appearance, with his grizzled pepper-and-salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor Roosevelt. The projects ran from a laxative advertisement (done before...