Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONG AND MORBID, Long Day's Journey Into Night deals with a family suffering from drug addiction, tuberculosis and failed dreams. The characters struggle, tug and tear at a web of love, hate and guilt. Although the Lowell and Quincy Drama Societies and the Harvard Independent Theatre production offers a sensitive, self-conscious rendition, the players too often tend to indulge in the same tormented mannerisms and aggrieved outbursts. By the end of the play, we are numbed by and tired of them and their traumatic lives...
Team member Giles Birch called the journey "semi-serious." Asked about the opportunity to mix business with pleasure, he remarked, "we always to seem to manage that...
...guts of teaching are how we feel about our students. If we can teach for their sakes, as well as for the sake of our own intellectual journey, then our profession can become what it should be: generous, life-enhancing, perenially satisfying...
...rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...
...Marco Polo of Junk Food, as he is known to awestruck lesser feeders, is renowned for his courageous researches into such regional American delicacies as barbecued chicken wings and Philadelphia cheese steaks. Here he is on a less eupeptic journey. We may assume that Calvin Trillin occasionally takes on a plateful of crab cakes or refried beans, but only as fuel. As his title indicates, this time Topic A is violent death...