Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to students of Freeman, economics is not his only passion. Second-year law student Glen A. Fine '79, who wrote his undergraduate Economics thesis under Freeman, describes the professor's love of professional wrestling; in addition. Freeman is said to have a terrific bank shot styled after the Boston Celtics' Sam Jones...
...Berry Brazelton, associate professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School is something of a renegade. At 65 his passion is babies, and he continues his lifelong work of documenting the distinct personalities of newborns, striking out beyond traditional medical research and delving into child development and psychology. He seeks through his non-traditional research and overall approach to understand each infant as a whole individual, and to communicate this understanding to their parents...
...long ago renounced such simple show-biz pleasures; neither Dot nor the audience gets to go to the Follies. This score is often doggedly mimetic, achieving its pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only at midpoint, then withdraws into tart anticlimax. It takes a second or third hearing for ballads like Finishing the Hat, Beautiful and Sunday to betray subterranean seisms of feeling: ironic, wistful, profound, possessed. A heart beats under that starched shirt...
...rather weak-willed character, who leads the mutiny because he wants to return to his Tahitian princess. He is given little opportunity to do anything except stand around looking gorgeous; we are never given a chance to see what motivates his actions. Why, for instance, does his passion for the princess turn into a romance de coeur so strong that he is willing to risk his life and those of the men on board the Bounty to return to Tahiti? All we see are a few semi-nude water love scenes or views of his getting tatooed--nothing substantial enough...
...writing the novel in English Haviaras also commits himself to pleasing an American audience. While he is careful to give the reader the brute information necessary to understand the names of the political groups, be is slightly lay in establishing the meaning of this information. A certain animating philosophical passion would make this book more accessible to American readers, transmuting the craftsmanlike and episodic plot into a story more obviously symbolic of general human experience...