Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Determined to expose Fevvers for the sham she must be, Walser resolves to follow in the wake of her newfound renown. That means somehow joining the circus of Colonel Kearney, a bizarre Kentuckian who has hired Fevvers to join a historic round-the-world tour: the American plans to outstrip Hannibal, taking a full troupe of performers and animals ("tuskers across the tundra!") from St. Petersburg to Japan, by way of Siberia, and thence on to Seattle. Walser is hired as a clown...
...always, Gurney has a keen eye and ear for the revealing trait: the parents so in love with their young children that they wake them in mid-evening, just to be with them some more; the long-married woman who reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy...
...spring time to wake once again to the green world that you've inherited, a world where baseball and the Red Sox are timeless joys...
Quizzically, Harvard has refused even to confirm or deny that it followed Faculty procedures set up in the wake of the Dominguez case to handle future incidents of harassment...
...choose, according to his wont, to name an insider, to look nationwide, to reorganize the College's administration entirely. Whatever he does, we hope that he will speak directly to those familiar with Fox's successes and failures, his style and methods, before deciding what to do in the wake of Fox's departure. Specifically, Spence should solicit more than the views of those who are here for longer than four years. Undergraduates, who will most assuredly be affected by the choice of the next dean, should be involved in the selection process. Besides Undergraduate Council members, we suggest that...