Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks easily, and with a gentle grace; Engel lists "conversation" among the things he enjoys on the dust jacket of his new book. He has a crinkly smile and offers it frequently. He is not jolly, but a modern and friendly version of courtly. Speaking about his years at Harvard, Engel downplays the difficulty of teaching fiction and writing it at the same time. Scheduling problems, mostly. Students make large and immediate demands on his time, whereas the writing can always be put off. Further, there are "certain similarities of energies" required of writing and teaching, and he says...
...here teaching about it all," he said with a smile, adding that Mexican Americans, like other minorities, will succeed only through involvement in politics...
...perception and reality." It was no easy task convincing people that the multiflex, which happens to be a very esoteric game plan, was, nonetheless, not a major field of concentration for Harvard students. "The whole situation became symbolic of the decline in American liberal education," she says with a smile...
...always listening, or on the verge of some great surprise. It may be a habit nurtured by Viewpoint. His eyes would flit down to the typescript and stay too long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
...Hill Street precinct comes to disorder. Detectives, patrolmen and patrolwomen, officers and desk jockeys shuffle through the squad room, find seats, swallow some coffee and try to ignore the day ahead. Sergeant Phillip Freemason Esterhaus (Michael Conrad), a mountain of meat and gristle with a smile that could crack ice, is briefing his charges on the new day's agenda. "I'd like to interject a personal observation," he announces. "It seems that we've reached a new low, graffiti-wise, in both the men's and women's lavatories. Now, in an organization...