Word: personae
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...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...persona on screen, he was one of the saddest men I've known," Don Widener, who penned the 1975 biography "Lemmon," told the Associated Press in an interview Thursday. "You could see it in his eyes. The face would be laughing but his eyes were sad. I never found out why that...
...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...have always been an opportunistic journalist. by "opportunistic," I mean willing to embarrass myself in whatever way it takes to make sure I have the biggest byline in the magazine. I'm not sure what I mean by "journalist." So when I read that Sony Pictures created the persona of David Manning of the Ridgefield Press in order to quote him in its ads for The Animal and A Knight's Tale, I shook my head in disgust, knowing that this is valuable free press I should be getting. I also felt bad for Mark and Jonathan Schumann, who really...
...have always been an opportunistic journalist. by "opportunistic," I mean willing to embarrass myself in whatever way it takes to make sure I have the biggest byline in the magazine. I'm not sure what I mean by "journalist." So when I read that Sony Pictures created the persona of David Manning of the Ridgefield Press in order to quote him in its ads for The Animal and A Knight's Tale, I shook my head in disgust, knowing that this is valuable free press I should be getting. I also felt bad for Mark and Jonathan Schumann, who really...