Word: heartedness
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Technical Knockout. Not until after his ninth-round tumble did Ali start fighting with wrath. Incarnadine but oaken-hearted, Wepner would not fall: a 10-1 underdog, he had never been knocked off his feet. Then, in the 15th round, with 19 seconds left to the fight, Ali slammed a...
But Burrhus Frederic Skinner is not, as his work or his opponents might imply, a cold-hearted man whose body bears the wings and feathers of the pigeons he has used in research. Rather, he is the writer who, during his senior year at Hamilton College, sent off his short...
What keeps this book from being more than an interesting and sometimes affecting experiment is Updike's unwillingness to cut himself off from the conventions of realism. The half-hearted word games, the tired ecclesiastical jokes, the shallow plot, are all consistent with a vision of Marshfield as a frustrated...
In an Inventive bit of programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string...
Some goalies steep themselves in humiliation for hours when they miss a shot. Glenn Hall once said: "Having a goal scored against you is like getting your pants taken down in front of 15,000 people." Though Parent is not exactly light-hearted about giving up goals, he can take...