词汇 | passion for anonymity |
词源 | passion for anonymity. Not a man who liked to be upstaged by his staff, Franklin D. Roosevelt announced midway through his first term in office that he was going to appoint several new assistants “with a passion for anonymity.” Possibly he was weary of all the newspaper coverage given his “brain trust.” Anyway, he did manage to appoint several assistants so self-effacing that nobody remembers them today—and contributed a new phrase to the language as well. |
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