Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection of Nabokov's lectures and notes could fully recapture the flavor of his professorial persona, but Lectures on Literature comes as close as one could hope for. Elegantly edited by Fredson Bowers, handsomely printed in an oversized format, it includes discussions of seven classic European and English novels and is extensively illustrated with Nabokov's drawings, diagrams, maps, floor plans and marginal annotations ("Idiot!" he scrawled typically next to one of the many mistranslations that outraged...
...court, Cowens had done it all--winning the MVP and rookie of the year awards and also earning selection seven times to the All-Star game and twice to the All-Defensive team. But it was his public persona that made Dave Cowens "Dave Cowens"--the player-coach who, presiding over one of the team's most disastrous seasons in 1978-1979, never hesitated to lambaste his own teammates when they squandered their abilities...
...sympathetic critics, has been tinged with some of this Victorian opprobrium: Bowie the musical chameleon, the masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical development of Bowie's last three albums. With Brian Eno's aid. Bowie...
Bryant controls the substitutions himself. The rolled-up sheets of paper he clutches on the sidelines, containing notes to himself and lists of alternate squads, are as much a symbol of his stadium persona as his jaunty houndstooth hat. Says he: "I want to have my best offensive and defensive units rested and fresh just before the half. I want them not to be worn down for the first five minutes of the second half, and I want them fresh for the last ten minutes of the game. These are the times that football games are won or lost...
...traumatic end. His ineffectual solicitor father, Edward, remarried, took to drink, and in a fit of modernism had his five sons circumcised when Alfred, the eldest, was at least 14. It was a shock to the youth, and one of the causes of his later withdrawal into a formal persona from which he would rarely emerge. He reported the lascivious behavior of a governess to his stepmother, causing her dismissal. During a London visit to the British Museum he ignored a voluptuous Venus for a statue of Mercury. At Oxford, he welcomed the cloistered male world...