Word: donal
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...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 to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...
...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 to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...
...current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...