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...Lacey, one of the calmest and most benign of the journalists who write about the monarchy: "One must not reveal too much of the mystery because the royals have faults, dishonesties, nastinesses like anyone else. A lot of us happen to think that the illusions and idealization which surround this family is quite a healthy thing. Everyone needs vehicles for their social dreams...
...makes a good stab, though. Like a student who hasn't done the week's reading but tries to answer a question in section, Axinn grabs onto broad, oft-used poetic ideas--like the wind, or the poet--and tries to surround the images and vignettes in a cloud of meaning. The result is little more than a patch of ground...
...star is set apart not so much by the events it consists of as by the emotions that it inspires. The specialness, in the end, comes from the same thing that turns the private person into a public actor: an emotional apparatus so overactive that it can surround molehills of circumstance with mountains of drama. An unusual need for affection and applause is only the most conspicuous of the traits that impel a person toward the actor's life. Not quite so visibly, the actor type tends to have a streak of emotional gluttony on or off stage...
...adjunct professor so that he could spend more time with the biotechnological company he had just founded. Penhoet will lose his tenure and have his salary cut, but he says he wants to decrease his involvement on campus to "span the two worlds." It is not possible to surround a university with a most," he says, adding that interaction between universities and industry is vital to the development of science...
...remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books on shelves that surround his desk...