Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most beautiful are also the most miserable. The plain fact that this is often not true has never weakened the formula's appeal, and Tryon plays it for whatever it is worth. No facet of his characters' exquisite unhappiness remains unbuffed. "There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts. "Movie star," Willie Marsh snarls. "It's a crock...
...were objective enough to print it. There are many of us in the Harvard community who feel that affirmative action is an unjust, racist and sexist practice and I would like to thank Mr. Ferrara for speaking out on our behalf. It is all too easy to let oneself be intimidated by the moralistic self-righteousness of minority-group spokesmen who angrily contend that affirmative action is the only way to end supposed biases in school admission and hiring policies. Clearly, affirmative action is a blatant form of racism, no less reprehensible than that practiced by right-wing extremists such...
...book ranges from the typical patterns of the 20s (establishing oneself and cutting links to parents) up to the mellow 50s when the "midlife crisis" of fading purpose and strength presumably has been faced. Though the book seems a bit like a sprawling rewrite of the four New York pieces, Dutton feels it has a bestseller on its hands. Sheehy believes she has "made a bridge between journalistic and academic methods." As the author tells it, she learned her anthropological methods from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in a post graduate year of study at Columbia. Sheehy contends that Passages could easily...
...Lady from the Sea is not one of Ibsen's strongest dramas, but it is psychologically compelling. As Ellida, Vanessa Redgrave illuminates the repressed sexuality, the abstracted inability to relate to others, the state of being "absent from oneself." Pat Hingle has never done more sensitive work than in portraying an unbelievably decent...
...sort of moment you wait for in Nikolais: when the dancer is not a transmittor of energy and dimension, not an object, but a human being--or, more accurately, a performer, since Nikolais knows that on the stage one is never oneself...