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Trager, sensing the steady approach of his personal Waterloo, lambasted his team and its lack of mental focus, tongue-lashing his infielders as the game slipped away, but to no avail...
Darwitz skated in past co-captain Angela Ruggiero and knocked in the rebound past Boe’s right side, but as soon as the officials signaled a goal, Boe and the rest of the Crimson turned in protest and the goal was put under review, to no avail...
...forward Chris Smart, knocking him to the surface with an open-ice hit. Straddling the prone Catamount’s shoulders, Welch reached down and tore Smart’s helmet from his head, sending it skidding away while its owner raced to the official in protest, to no avail...
...hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff poses? of Aborigines like clan leader Wonggu: lively, strong people, clearly at ease with the photographer. Back in Melbourne, Thomson urged segregation for the region - to no avail, despite his warnings about European and Japanese fishermen bringing alcohol and encouraging prostitution. In 1942 he returned north to set up a secret reconnaissance unit to watch for Japanese troops. Warriors who had once been punished for killing Japanese now learned how to throw Molotov cocktails in the name...
Granted freedom, we are eager to confine ourselves. We are an ambitious lot; our monomania structures our ambition. It functions as a sort of limit—it’s impossible, after all, to avail ourselves of all of the College’s extracurricular and social opportunities; devoting ourselves wholeheartedly to one activity acts as a sort of check. This devotion to a single activity binds circles of friends and decides blocking groups. It can act as a sort of de facto career counseling. The danger, of course, is in our limiting ourselves too sharply. But monomania itself...