It was overarching ambition realized through the meticulous details of horn lines, backup vocal strategies and rhythm-section blueprints.
That description threatens to undersell a book that leaves virtually no New York obsession unmined: made wealth, inherited wealth, real estate, art, design, philanthropy, society, thwarted ambition, realized ambition, eccentricity.
His make-no-little-plans ambition, realized (for once!) in the design of Chandigarh, the new capital of Punjab, in India, seen in plan, drawing, film, photograph, and an arresting six-by-eight-foot wooden model, built by a cabinetmaker and hung on the wall like sculpture.
In the tournaments the ordinary player sees his own utmost ambitions vicariously realized.
"The upside," he continued, "is financial gain, and dreams and ambitions being realized.
And if I was initially judgmental about their ambitions, I realized it was more complicated after seeing it up close.
A Smart Bet In an understanding of why Jones's super-size ambitions, regularly realized off the field, have been largely unfulfilled on it, it is useful to know how he made his money in the first place.
If even half the ambitions are realized, the combined projects would produce more oil than the 1 million barrels a day coming from Alaska's North Slope.
The game has just gone live in the App Store today, and it'll run you $.99 — we'll have to see if Disney's ambitions are realized, but it's a great timewaster nonetheless.
