Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Matt is fidgety, defensive, and given to speechifying--his mouth seems to hemorrhage words. Plunkett's Sally takes a pose and holds it, folds her arms over her chest, and seems almost sullenly reticent--giving up words only with great pain. Their contrast, and their ability to paint the absent members of their families from a palette of human types, fills the rotting boathouse with a spectrum of human experience...
THERE COMES A point in Absent Without Love when you realize just how haphazard the creative imagination is. It happens when the cast is singing and dancing the show's centerpiece. "A Pair O' Lips Now," a silly play on Coppola's Vietnam epitaph A pair o' lips now...Apocalypse Now...obviously it has something to do with war. And lips. And music. The ideas spin off the wordplay like sparks: World War Two, our last celebrational war: a U.S.O. troupe, those impetuous combat comedians: lips, something to do with lips. One suspects the pun came first and the show...
...first level is so imperceptible it is often mistaken for mere absent-mindedness. This consists of the interjections of a familiar moniker into a conversation where the name is completely irrelevant. Kurt Vonnegut does this all the time: in the middle of a discussion of, say, polo ponies his eyes will suddenly glaze over and he'll shake his head and mutter, "Erooke Shields." This behavior is--poor Kurt--the familiar early symptom of a greater malaise...
...Pipes, Baird Professor of History and currently senior Soviet specialist on the National Security Council, informed University officials that he will not return here until the 1982-83 academic year at the earliest. Pipes, on leave since the beginning of the semester, will lose tenure if he remains absent for more than two consecutive years... Harry R. Lewis '68, associate professor of Computer Science, will become the second McKay Professor of Computer Science in July. A junior faculty member here for seven years. Lewis will become the second tenured Computer Science professor...Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psychology, accepted...
Several things stand out about Sacks--his ability to talk at great length on almost any subject, his occasional absent-mindedness, and his genuine concern for people--but it is impossible to talk about him without talking about Harvard Law School. In the years he has spent at the Law School, as professor, as associate dean, and finally as dean, Sacks work has become his life. He has few hobbies and outside interests. As Sadelle R. Sacks, his wife says. "There is very little else you can do when you are dean." And Bernardi says. "Harvard Law School has really...