Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire of Harvard-nurtured to write Harvard novels is, of course, not new. And as Amanda Cross and Erich Segal have already demonstrated, and Silver makes abundantly clear, there are ways of satisfying that urge which do not involve subjecting the reading public to an embarrassing wallow in nostalgic meditation. Not that the excesses of more "serious" Harvard novelists such as George A. Weller '29 and Faye Levine '65 aren't understandable; writers are supposed to write from experience, and any Harvard career as Real and Grand and Full as these writers seem to have had just cries...
Hart also supports the freeze, but, unlike Mondale, he does not wallow in its symbolism, or pretend that a freeze can be easily negotiated. Despite increasingly hysterical charges by Mondale that Hart is the dupe of Reagan's legislative ploy to pass the MX missile proposal. Hart voted against the Reagan MX missile build-down program on October...
Another therapy called Morita also aims at erasing introspection and getting patients back to work. For a week patients are confined to bed, with no visitors, no TV and no reading matter. Forced to wallow in their own thoughts, they come to see that action is better than endless self-obsession. Patients then work outdoors for two weeks, going from light to heavy labor. They also attend indoctrination lectures. No talk about the self is allowed. The whole program is tinged with a sense of resignation: things are the way they...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...
...despair. Donna Staephansky as the dying, 40-year-old Mary succeeds in dominating the play from her sickbed her haggard face showing the marks of unfulfilled expectation. Her raspy voiced stubborness and eccentricity keep her alive as a character and avoid the danger of letting the role wallow in bitterness and cynicism...