Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bewitching them. Most frequently, Forman consulted his charts about affairs of the heart-his own as well as others'. During his long quest for a proper bride, the astrologer rejected all women who could not pass the ordeal by horoscope. The stars told him that one candidate "will ... bear outward in her behavior a fair show, but she will play the whore privily." He never called on her again...
...carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there is the long and severe form of Mr. Fisher himself, the broker of futures...
...than the way of the nurses and the doctors (whatever the drawbacks of their system). Contemporary critics of psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses like Thomas Szasz have pointed out these drawbacks, and it's a pity that Forman didn't choose to bring any of his intellectually stimulating criticism to bear upon the problem. The result might have been something like Equus, a balanced portrayal of madness and sanity and what each loses by trying to block the other out completely...
...members of the last cohesive hunting societies in North America, they lived in a vital, even religious relationship with the animals they chased and ate. A Cree family band ranges over hundreds of square miles, fishing and hunting with the strict procedures and skill that amount to ritual. Bear bones, for example, are never thrown to the dogs. The Cree believe that animals shun being captured by people who show disrespect...
...Editor's note - Please bear in mind that the author of this column's chief goal in life is to drive the zamboni machine between periods of some future Harvard hockey game...