Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flambeur seems wonderfully ancient because it is. The film was made back in 1955, which means Lindbergh, Le Car and Yoplait had an easier time getting across the Atlantic. The director and co-screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville (who died in 1973) was born Grumbach, but his passion for America led him to change his name in honor of the great American author...
...great passion in life--the importance of getting an international perspective on people's lives," he says now, adding, "It's frightening how totally ignorant we are, even here at Harvard where the scope is wider." In the admissions office, this passion translates into handling some of the foreign admissions load, chairing the committees that award several prestigious traveling fellowships, and co-authoring with Admissions Director William R. Fitzsimmons '67 and three others this fall's comprehensive report on the experience of foreign students at Harvard. Nationally, he will soon begin chairing a committee on immigrants' children and their adjustment...
...passion for people watching which unites Malin's sports and admissions worlds will lose some targets this fall, as the director foregoes his usual recruiting trips to D.C. and to the West Coast. "Admissions is fun and all that," he says, "but I can't say I'll be too unhappy about not going to Beverly Hills High School and talking endlessly about do graduate students teach all the courses at Harvard and all those other tiresome questions." But tiresome or not, the admits--especially those who pass through the aid office--furnish him with years more of reflection...
...radical solution to dilemmas are easily called for. So when we read every day of more and more violent crimes and we get the impression justice is more concerned with the victimizer than the victim capital punishment takes on a greater appeal. Cool Calculated study gives way to the passion of the moment...
Jiggetts, whose easy-going manner and quiet speaking voice bely his intense passion for the players' cause, doesn't predict when the strike would end, noting simply that "we're not coming back until we get what we want." But he adds, "we're going...