Word: rogerism
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...lunch last week with Roger, a fellow senior and an old friend of mine. It was the first time we'd seen each other in months, as a full schedule of classes, job interviews and thesis writing had taken away nearly all of our free time. We talked for almost two hours, and while Roger tried to project the optimism and self-confidence expected of a 21-year-old Ivy Leaguer nearing graduation, he confessed to be grappling with fear and doubt...
...Roger was lonely. He was bored. The pressure he had felt for so many years was weighing heavily upon...
Other seniors, no doubt, share Roger's feelings. The pressure starts all too early. From the moment we can walk, we are carted all over the city for piano and swimming lessons, Sunday school and Boy Scout meetings. In high school, we add varsity sports, theater and the newspaper. Naturally, we are good students, and we fill our evenings with trigonometry and Thoreau. And so we arrive at Harvard, factory for the best and brightest. Spurred on by ghosts of centuries past, we run faster, reach farther and climb higher...
...anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried to find out if they might have. In fact, only a few hours after the shooting FBI agents were spreading the word that King's killer had been a single gunman acting alone. Roger Wilkins, then head of the crs, recalls that when he and Attorney General Ramsey Clark were flying to Memphis from Washington the day after the killing, FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. ("Deke") DeLoach "was pushing us hard" on the FBI's lone-gunman theory. How the agency could have been...
Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It's the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. We want to feel for them. But not too much. We want our doomsdays...