Word: jokingness
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Now, at 5, he was standing on the pier at Newell waiting patiently for the joking and the chatting to subside so he could get down to business. Soon there were ten women sitting quietly on the bench, and he had their attention. He began quietly, in his deep, sonorous...
Reading provided a major outlet for Speer's mental energy. "Spandau was truly my education," he muses. Allowed to borrow from Berlin's libraries, Speer sometimes devoured as many as 50 books a month. He also became an enthusiastic gardener. "It became my salvation," he confessed last week...
Touch and Go remains casual about matters of plot, however, and gets lazy in its joking. There are too many Italian-army gags, for example, all having to do with stupidity or cowardice. Even more drastic, the film has an insinuating cuteness, like De Broca's much-cherished King...
Comparisons between "then" and "now" raise the question of just how different student-faculty relations were before the supposed watershed of the late 60s. The image of a "golden age" of faculty involvement with students was conjured up in a 1973 Washington Post article written by a 1958 graduate returning...
THE PROBLEM with Elsa's Housebook is that we approach it as strangers and remain strangers after we have read it; few of the memories and associations that make these pictures meaningful to Dorfman have been realized within the pictures themselves and few of them are memorable as purely formal...