Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like the dying Janet Case) who are in need, practical and encouraging to younger writers like Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen...
Christine Panek, a hospital worker who lives in Kennebunk, Me., was driving home a few weeks ago, when she saw an injured robin in the middle of the road. She took it home, nursed it to health, then hatched a plan to reunite her patient with its migrated friends...
...taken on yet another patient, this time a newish school suffering from a trendy reputation rather than the handicaps of tradition-the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...trainer's patient that November morning was Harvard offensive tackle Mike Durgin, who was nursing a sore shoulder. While Fadden had stepped away, a visitor asked the hulking senior about the white-haired and bespectacled old man's secret. Durgin smiled and pointed to his head. "I've learned more from that man than anything over there," he said, gesturing in the direction of the Yard and its classrooms...
That Goldstien's talent erupts in Dysart's scenes with his patient is understandable since Jon Magaril's performance as Alan is extraordinary. In the same way that Alan draws in Dysart, Magaril mesmerizes the audience, simultaneously seductive and repulsive. Magaril makes Alan the truly compelling victim of the Modern Age: alienated, practically illiterate, addicted to television. Alan is the perfect Freudian delight (with a twist) who hates his father, loves his mother, and desperately needs something to worship, something to absolve him of his sins in this universe where "God is dead...