Word: passionlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrative is told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses...
DIED. LEON EDEL, 89, the reigning authority on Henry James, who vividly detailed the author's life in a five-volume, Pulitzer-prizewinning biography; in Honolulu. In Edel's energetic and engrossing work, James emerged not as the passionless scholar of previous interpretations but as an artist of great spirit as well as mind, roiled by psychic conflict...
Former Europe Apple Passionless Anonymous retirement president. More leadership costs and lucrative Apple facile with politics Apple market share paycheck assure his than PCs and star employees discretion...
Throughout the 1980s and '90s young first-time novelists have persisted in making detachment their dominion. Those writers have created worlds in which contemporary characters speak in a passionless staccato as they find themselves ravaged not by tragedy but rather by vague ennui...
...this is exactly the problem. A writer who can make Bernstein's sex life boring is capable of any enormity. Respectful to a fault, but devoid of any spice or sauce, Leonard Bernstein is the kind of passionless hagiography that Leonard Bernstein would have hated...