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...narcissist may appear relaxed and friendly, but inside, claims Lasch, he is desperate for a meaning beyond himself. He is also a pent-up competitor for the approval and rewards of a distant authority figure. To the author, this authority is now vested in the bureaucratic state, which offers neither moral guidance nor philosophical distinctions between good and evil...
That positive start shows in Mehta's first rehearsals. He radiates pent-up emotion that electrifies the orchestra. In certain lyrical passages, as in Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet, " he almost stops conducting, falling into a dreamy, swimming motion. At more dramatic moments, however, he will step smartly forward, as if charging directly into the music. Startled, the players give him the taut line that he wants...
...stood frozen on the rubber like a petrified rabbit, Fisk was flashing finger codes at him, and Bobby didn't know what any of them meant. Out of fear he just nodded neurotically. And then he stood there, not knowing what to do. The crowd had worked itself into pent-up silence, awaiting the pitch of the season. The sweat was pouring down from Bobby's brow, flooding his eyes and blurring his vision. He stepped off the mound to wipe his forehead; George Foster rolled his eyes with impatience and disgust, stepping out of the batter...
Castro seems to have little difficulty in making Cubans accept his African adventures. Among other things, the African policy provides a vent for the pent-up energies of young Cubans faced with a stagnating economy and limited employment prospects at home. On a recent visit to Havana, TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was told by a Cuban air force reservist: "I will be glad to help in Africa, to help our brothers finish off neocolonialism and racism." Others are less enthusiastic but too prudent to disagree. Said one university student: "I have friends who know that some Cubans have been...
...help they get from Onna White's routine choreography is tangential: who of us dances out work life any way, except dancers? The songs are written by too many hands to possess a distinctive signature, though James Taylor's Millwork with Bobo Lewis is a pensive pent-up lamentation...