Word: lifelong
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After Ho, what? Lacouture is not encouraging to those who think that Ho's lifelong dream of a united, independent Viet Nam will die with him. Once, when temporarily out of the country, Ho was asked if he worried about what his subordinates might be up to. "What could they possibly do without me?" he answered serenely. "It was I who made them." Being so fashioned in his image, Lacouture thinks, Ho's heirs can dream no other dream...
...mention many theologians-have long been intrigued by the thought that Jesus, if he returned to earth, might be scorned or rejected by modern Christianity. Implicitly, this is the theme of Nazarin, a Mexican film made ten years ago by Luis Buňuel;, a onetime cinema surrealist and lifelong enemy of church and state. The film is now shown in the U.S. for the first time, in the wake of his successful Belle de Jour...
Aside from the law, Fortas' lifelong interest has been music. His Sunday afternoon music group is famous as the "3025 N Street Strictly-No-Refunds String Quartet." Any visiting violinist or cellist who passes through Washington is likely to be pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin...
...gods to the houses of Cadmus and Atreus. Of their nine children, they have buried four: Joe Jr., who died in World War II; Kathleen, who perished in a 1948 plane crash; John, and now Bobby, at the age of 42. Rosemary, 48, has been a lifelong victim of mental retardation. Ted, now the only remaining son, nearly died in a 1964 plane accident. While he was recovering Bobby cracked: "I guess the only reason we've survived is that there are too many of us. There are more of us than there is trouble." The curse of violent death...
...almost as if he were sliding off some horrible precipice toward some faraway disaster. There was an irresistible compulsion to do everything and try everything. That is when he began to shoot rapids and climb mountains." This compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named for his brother, and plunge, during a 1965 canoe trip down the Amazon, into piranha-infested waters. A group of Indians cried anxiously that he was risking...