Word: manneredness
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To wit: sophomore Mike Gilmore, a generally mild-mannered person, seemed to metamorphose this weekend on the court. After engaging in some significant jawing with Yale's Dan Okwonko on Friday, he nearly came to blows with Brown's Brain Lloyd the next night.
Ooooh--a Georgian (that would be me), a mild-mannered Bronx native (Dave Griffel) and a Kansan (our boss, Sean Wissman) take over production of the Crimson sports section today, a quality trifecta of the good, the bad and the ugly.
The alcoholic's child, of course, hates what the sauce has done to his ) father: "I didn't want to be like my father," Hamill writes. "I didn't want to be a drunk." Yet drinking meant manhood. It was, he later decided, "the sacramental binder of friendships . . . the reward...
The unspoken motives of proponents of the President's health-care plan are power-lust, arrogance and resentment of doctors. (Each of these has a more emollient name, but we'll get farther if we keep the bark on.) The lust for power, or at very least the conviction that...
/ The novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's...