Word: confidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd Webber was on his own in his next project, an audacious attempt to set T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to music. He turned to the innovative director Trevor Nunn and the brilliant designer John Napier to transform his plotless feline frolic into the...
At the other extreme, the relentless and ritualized normalcy of a society like Japan's -- there are only four psychiatrists in all of Tokyo -- can, to Western eyes, itself seem almost abnormal. Too few eccentrics can be as dangerous as too many weirdos. For in the end, eccentricity is a...
/ One makes us smile, but the menace of the other casts a chill. A confident society cherishes its eccentrics but is wary of its weirdos.
The economists acknowledged that consumers have become more subdued since the crash; the Commerce Department reported last week that retail sales in November were up a meager .2% from the previous month. But the forecasters felt confident that other sources of growth besides consumer spending would power the economy in...
"I think most of it is confidence," Roby said. "He needs to be patient, and he needs to be confident that the shots are going to drop."