Word: dickinsons
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...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...mail Amy Dickinson at timefamily@aol.com
...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...Dickinson's column on a study in which the drug fluvoxamine (or Luvox) was used to treat children with severe anxiety disorders [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, May 7] said that when children in the study were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed improvement, while, when given Luvox, 76% showed swift improvement. Neither cognitive nor behavioral therapy was a component of this study. Dickinson mistakenly used "behavioral therapy" as a generic term referring to the "supportive therapy" offered to the children...
...write a biography on you, but I can certainly put you in my book about NP—and that’s a start : ) I do have one complaint—and it is a minuscule one at that—but you misspelled my name. James Dickinson is the piano player on the Stones’ classic “Wild Horses” and the father of the drummer and lead singer of the North Mississippi Allstars. I’m just a simple scribe who lives in a van down by the river. Or something like...