Word: tirelessness
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...evening is still young for the tireless (read: exhausted) warriors of FM, who continue their own social pursuits with stops at Winthrop and Quincy “seniors only” parties and at the Kong. Struck at 3 a.m. by the painful realization that they are no different and no cooler than the first-years they have been assigned to cover, they stop admiring their real IDs and drag their weary bones back toward the river, forever young...
Richard Zare ’61, who was one of Herschbach’s first post-doctoral students at the University of California, Berkeley several decades ago, called the celebration a “grand gathering of the Herschbach fan club” and emphasized his tireless dedication to his research...
Nevertheless, we continue to rely on such words. We have to, motivated by the tireless question about the origin of the hatred toward the U.S. To answer questions like these, many of us turn to scholarship—for instance, to Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, who has described a narrative of Muslim bitterness provoked by a crusading Christian West. In his 1990 essay, The Roots of Muslim Rage, Lewis concludes that the U.S. and Islam represent worlds fated to clash...
...rate, and that has taken a lot of mental-health professionals by surprise. The illness until recently was thought of as the rare province of luckless adults--the overachieving businessman given to sullen lows and impulsive highs; the underachieving uncle with the mysterious moods and the drinking problem; the tireless supermom who suddenly takes to her room, pulls the shades and weeps in shadows for months at a time...
...case has gone mostly unnoticed outside local papers. But Yoder's tireless campaign to build a movement for his release is beginning to gain national support. "I have found no evidence of psychosis--only a justifiably angry man," wrote Dr. Loren Mosher in a letter last year to Illinois Governor George Ryan. A former chief of schizophrenia studies at the National Institute of Mental Health, Mosher charged that "the state is practicing preventive detention in the guise of mental-health 'treatment.'" Yoder's most famous advocate is Patch Adams, the physician Robin Williams played in the movie. "He was angry...