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...time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days, a penchant for juggling several deals at one time, an ability to unravel the complex maritime laws...
WHAT IS MORE, this beginner likes words even better than people. He is no Russian emigre, but he has a distinctly Nabokovian penchant for treating words like butterflies with a giddy life of their own. His conceits are playful...
...chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag good advice...
THIS SOFTER VIEW of Freud makes some of the turmoil of the early psychoanalytic movement more reasonable. Freud's dramatic break with Jung over infantile sexuality was more than a disagreement between two men who shared a penchant for scientific heresy. The rivalry had been building to an icy separation for years, with Freud at first uncritically embracing his bright new supporter, then burdening him with the administration of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and finally resenting even Jung's greater physical stature. In a photograph taken at the Weimar Congress in 1911. Freud at five foot seven seems taller than...
Shero offers no apologies. Of Dupont, Kelly and Shultz, he says, "I've been blessed with their abrasive natures. They make other teams wary and cautious." As for the Flyers' penchant for penalties, he explains, "we get more because we scrap more. We get into more fights because we check closer and make more contact." Indeed, hard contact is the heart of Shero's tactical philosophy: "I don't have any use for a player who only looks for the puck in open space. He has to be willing to make contact, to use his stick...