Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rozanov, a native Ennistonian of Russian ancestry who is also a philosopher of worldwide renown, does nothing to calm these waters. Rozanov, who is supposed to have all the answers, is rumored to be writing the book that will cap his brilliant career. Privately, he is in despair. His lifelong search for truth, for a logical edifice that will support the notion of morality, has arrived at a culdesac. He now admits that "at the bottom, which isn't very far down, it's all rubble, jumble. Not even muck but jumble...
...book is not a string of pronouncements: Barrett has a gift for getting people to talk. Even the President's taciturn brother Neil confessed to their lifelong competition in macho stoicism: "I don't give him credit for taking a deep breath, and he won't give me credit for taking a deep breath...
...Alessandra Stanley arrived six months before that, and Joseph Kane came five years ago. Picture Researcher Martha Haymaker has seniority with 15 years' residence. But an exception marks every rule: Reporter Laura Meyers, who turned up statistics more current than the U.S. Census Bureau's, is a lifelong Angeleno...
...marriage alive by retreating to separate houses. Woodie shuttled between them until he was forced to choose between parents. He opted to live with his father, a decision that merely added to his misery and guilt. A year after the divorce, in 1934, Ruth was dead. Broun Sr., a lifelong atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before his death at 51. He left behind a bewildered preppie who, for years afterward, wanted only "to set up a house where my parents could go on living, a place with three floors and a basement, one floor for each...
...bookcase shows some Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. In deference to modernity, she even does some sociology. Then when a member of my obsessive sex who simple-heartedly looks to the Business School Via economics seeks to make headway with her, she starts educating him--needless to say, a lifelong process...