Word: enjoy
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...taking tests... But that only applied to a regular class where it was clear that you had to (1) stay there all period and (2) had to be doing something or you might get an F." Herndon's conclusion--he was making the mistake of expecting the kids to enjoy things which only he wanted them to enjoy, when, in fact, he had no interest in simulating the poverty of Haiti in his Alliance for Progress log. And if he didn't like the games he made up for his classes, his kids weren't likely to love them either...
Despite the team's difficulties, McCurdy remains hopeful. "Injuries will make it tough for us early in the season," he said last week. "But if we get our key runners back before too long, I think we can still enjoy an outstanding year...
Those credentials have hemidemisemi-quavers of Alma Mahler, who also combined personal beauty and an intellectual signal that achievers found irresistible. But Gilliatt's life has no such grand Viennese design. The first major film critic since James Agee to enjoy distinction as a scenarist, she has become something of a recluse, both in her life and work. The prominent are never the subjects of her fiction, so far almost twoscore polished short stories and two novels, largely about the odd, unfashionable characters whom Anthony Burgess reviewed as "defiantly interesting...
There is little doubt that Reuben is as concerned with maximizing human happiness as he is with formulating another bestseller. His basic premise is that "every modern woman is entitled to enjoy the greatest sensory experiences." Yet he seems to have little appreciation of the incredible variety and uniqueness of life. While he consistently states that a woman should make up her own mind about how to satisfy her sexual appetites, he is practically Mosaic in insisting that the best place to do it is through a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. But then how does a woman make the most...
Skinner nonetheless allows himself some relaxation. He drinks vodka and tonic in the late afternoon, sees an occasional movie, reads Georges Simenon detective novels once in a while, and enjoys the company of friends, his two children and his grandchildren. It sounds fulfilling, but a poignant passage from a personal journal several years ago suggests an underlying sadness: "Sun streams into our living room. My hi-fi is midway through the first act of Tristan and Isolde. A very pleasant environment. A man would be a fool not to enjoy himself in it. In a moment I will work...