Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved--that were it not for their extraordinary compassion and empathy, they would not be in their present position. This is especially true in Jennifer Granholme's case. Jennifer voluntarily involved herself in the hearings in order that Mike Anderson not suffer a heavier punishment. Such an act of friendship is rare and should be applauded, and that the Ad Board appears to have given it no consideration in its decision is very disheartening to me. Hard as I try, I cannot understand the Board's decision, and absoulutely fail to see the justice in Jennifer's punishment...
However, Baldwin's ideal did not come without its own price. The price for his newfound humanity was his friendship with his boyhood idol, Richard Wright. Perhaps the most heartbreaking essay of the lot is "Alas, Poor Richard," the chronicle of their split. In it, Baldwin describes Wright's anger over a perceived insult and gives his hero's feelings full credit. Baldwin acknowledges his own insensitivity in using Wright as a "springboard" for his own ideas, but he refuses to let his culpability shake loose his convictions. He concludes: "The war in the breast between blackness and whiteness, which...
According to the experts, after the Kumite stage the instructor assigns a theme to the practice--this theme, practitioners agree, can define the quality of the workout experience. Such themes include softness, friendship, aggression. The students express the theme through their Shintaido...
...implications of his relative whiteness, he gathers strength and wisdom. Zakes Mokae, a 1982 Tony Award winner for Master Harold, engagingly re-creates his original performance as the darker, earthier, more mercurial and in the end more freely dreaming brother. The actors' blood knot of decades of fraternal friendship has only ripened their truth onstage. W.A.H...
...Babenco (adapting Manuel Puig's novel) attempts more than a sensitive study about the burgeoning of one off-beat friendship. He sets his sights on the giddy interplay between fantasy and fact, with the premise that escapism is indispensable to a psychologically sound existence...