Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are grim, without humor, without simple hopes or simple joys. They are "un-women" who can, without blinking, with words that outwardly have the cloak of moral rhetoric but inwardly express selfishness and auger, that they will kill their own children to get their way. Michael Pakaluk Teaching Fellow in Philosophy
...quite enjoy a writer's work, if you turn the page approvingly yet' don't mind being interrupted, then you tend to like the author unthinkingly. Good chap, you assume. Sound fellow....But if you love a writer, if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence, if you want to pursue him and find him--despite edicts to the contrary--then it's impossible to know too much. You seek the vice as well...
...side: clearer, yet more volatile. The sky is a theatre of possibilities. I'm not romanticising." The central chapter of the book, in which all the themes come together, is even symbolically cast in the form of a conversation during a Channel crossing between Braithwaite and the reader, his fellow traveler...
...here's the deal on Tokyo Woes. A "big strapping fellow" named Mike Halsey suddenly gets it into his head to go to Japan. Why? That's just Mike for you. On the flight over he meets a returning native, "William (call me Bill) Atenabe," who has managed to blow $100,000 betting on U.S. high school basketball games. Before they land, Bill has invited Mike to stay with the Atenabes, whose home sprawls over one-eighth of an acre in Tokyo. Mike is not one for making snap judgments, but the Atenabe clan is certainly unusual. Take Poppa Kobe...
...more traditional vein, Albion is a revelation as Ulysses. Strutting around the stage to the delight of his fellow Grecians as well as the audience. Albion felicitously slides into character. Because Ulysses is unmistakibly Shakespeare's favorite character Albion has the bard's most eloquent prose an his dispoal, of which he takes full advantage...