Word: pinings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returns to this wound in chapter after beautifully written chapter, across the decades. Men in his plots are isolated from women; wives die in childbirth or simply pack up and move out; lovers pine or sulk offstage. Blacks and whites are of course isolated from one another, even when bound by love and blood kinship. Sons and fathers cherish obscure bitternes, then meet after years of silence and fail to reconcile. Acts of love are intense but always precarious and often deadly...
...birth of Romanticism, modern academia, post-Newtonian physics. We've heard he fails to understand women or to create good female characters. But in Thomasina Coverly, a 13-year-old mathematical genius fated to die before her 17th birthday, he has forged a female role any young actress would pine for. We've heard that he is all brain and no heart, and yet by Arcadia's final act, Stoppard has shown he knows enough about hearts to break them...
...Dance Club, founded just six years ago, is working to ensure it doesn't fall from the number one spot. The club currently has about 150 members, 50 to 60 of whom dance competitively, Pine said...
...Harvard cleaned up," Pine said. "We won almost every event and we won the team match by a landslide, as always...
...something you can't do by yourself," Pine said. "One person dancing isn't ballroom...