Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will never find Waring's bear. He is out there somewhere, that bear, but you have to go looking for him. George Waring, 42, is an ophthalmic surgeon from Atlanta who does a lot of big-water expedition kayaking. Once in Alaska he and a friend were sluicing at high speed along Prairie Creek, in the neighborhood of Mount McKinley. The creek was 30 ft. wide, and it was fast and rocky. Salmon slapped the bottom of their kayak. Abruptly they came upon a grizzly in the water, fishing for salmon. There was no way to stop...
...real reason for my imprisonment was that I had constantly warned my friends and compatriots against a Communist takeover of our country. Because I always refused to repudiate my ideas, I was systematically beaten, kept in solitary confinement, physically and mentally tortured. My mind and my hands still bear the traces. I saw my companions tortured; I was both witness to and victim of a violent and ruthless penitentiary system...
...highly differentiated ability" to decide what goes with what, Spelke went on to deduce that children are born with an innate ability to divide their experiences into categories. Says she: "Obviously, in order to make sense of anything that you're confronted with, you have to bring to bear certain conceptions about the world. Our hope is that we'll learn something about what those initial conceptions...
...They give everything to their men and expect nothing in return, and so they are not surprised when their men turn into beasts. That is natural, Döblin and Fassbinder suggest: we are all predatory animals, driven by the compulsions to fornicate and dominate. A bear of a man, Franz makes love with feral ferocity, strapping his mate around his body, biting her neck in carnivore passion. It takes a special kind of actor to play Franz, and Lamprecht, who looks like a cross between Emil Tannings and Hermann Goering, has the stolid majesty for the role...
...University should be most reluctant to offer assistance and encouragement of any kind to students who violate the law. One can appreciate the courage of those who are willing to live by their principles. But individuals who choose to stand on their convictions and disobey the law must normally bear the consequences themselves. Such repressions of conscience are highly personal, and one cannot expect others to pay the cost...