Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political ad in last year's election supplement, by chance he discovered a "plot" to hijack all of that morning's Crimsons. After alerting the business staff of the nefarious scheme, Al introduced to the council and saw to passage an order that Cambridge police keep a "keen and constant watch" on the Out of Town newsstands. Thanks to his vigilance, no Crimsons were stolen that election...
...education here higher. And Harvard--the school with the motto "Veritas"--should be especially receptive to open criticism, he believes. In a letter last month to Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brown-Beasley wrote: "Since there are no 'final solutions,' constant criticism from within is our only hope for progress. Those who 'cannot absorb constant criticism' might well be reminded of the admonition attributed to President 'Give 'Em Hell, Harry' Truman: 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.' The Harvard administration is not a dumping ground...
...Greed. This kind of self-absorption has stirred research into narcissism. The emphasis on it in psychoanalysis, says Donald Kaplan, "is partly an intellectual fad, partly a response to the kind of patients we started to get in the mid-'60s-people in constant pursuit of new experiences to make their sense of self more palpable and acquit themselves of being less than their neighbors." Psychoanalyst Hendin agrees: "When I grew up, there was a greed for material things; now it's a very egocentric greed for experience." Today, says Hendin, "the culture has made caring seem like...
...less bothersome. Both visually and vocally, Verrett conveyed little of Shakespeare's "fiendlike queen." Verdi wanted Lady Macbeth to be "twisted and ugly" and to sing with a "raw, choked, hollow voice." That may be asking too much. But Verrett's bland, unchanging facial expression and her constant concern-except in the sleepwalking scene, her best musical moment-with polished tone did not begin to get inside a character that is more important to the opera than Macbeth...
...swapping whoppers and case histories, the members of the troupe couple and uncouple in scenes that manage to be both erotic and clinically detached. Jealousies arise; a small epidemic of paranoia breaks out as opening night approaches. Linking all this motion and emotion is the production itself-the constant grind of rehearsals, the inexorable piling up of bits and pieces into something with the potential for magic...