Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Peace and calm is no way to raise a child to fame and fortune. A home should rock with passion, roll with turbulence, all of it caused by a violently opinionated father who in his own time is a failure. His awed and admiring son will then spend a creative life avenging father...
...during the reign of King Uther that Gorlois, the Duke of Tintadel. came to a great festival in the palace, bringing with him his wife, the seductive, creamy-skinned Igerne. Uther at once fell in love with Igerne. and declared his passion; she coldly tattled to Gorlois. and they hurried home. Uther pressed his courtship by besieging the great castle at Tintadel-and by being transformed (a simple job for Merlin) into the likeness of Gorlois, which let him dally with the hoodwinked lady. At length Gorlois was killed and Uther married Igerne. From this union sprang King Arthur...
Franz Josef proved to be a standout student. He won highest prizes in Latin, somewhat offset by his predilection for rowdy pranks, which kept his grades in deportment low and his popularity with fellow students high. He developed a passion for bicycling, once entered a 75-mile cross-country bike race, and won it, earning himself the title of "South German Road Champion." Resisting pressure to join the Nazis, he enrolled himself and his new motorcycle in the innocuous National Socialist Motorized Corps, which was little more than a sports club. At Munich University, he ranked...
...Going to Help." Against the mob's passion, the Foreman and Gabrielle families wavered. The Foremans. harassed by obscene telephone calls, moved to the home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don't know what they might try." Jim Gabrielle's boss told him-mistakenly-that his daughter had been shot. Daisey Gabrielle, ostracized by her neighbors, stood fast. "Neighbors change," she said. "Principles...
Addressing a meeting of the American Physical Society on his latest scientific passion-submicrominiaturization-Feynman took off from the fact that tiny human cells perform a variety of complex functions. He reasoned that human beings could theoretically manipulate mechanical devices on the same tiny scale. Arguing that the technical applications of such research would be "enormous"-it would be convenient, he noted, to be able to store all the world's basic knowledge in the equivalent of a pocket-sized pamphlet-Feynman then and there impetuously offered two $1,000 prizes. One was to go to the first person...