Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forward--Wan Poliziani, Yale...
...collected essays place keys to Tuchman's skill as on or best in the context of her intellectual growth. Tracing her own inspiration to one professor of history and two of literature, Tuchman recalls that their common characteristic wan an unbounded, almost torrential zeal for knowledge. (Of the historian, a classicist and anti-romantic, she writes: "His contempt for zeal was so zealous, so vigorous and learned, pouring out in a great organ fugue of erudition, that it amounted to enthusiasm in the end.") Passionate fervor, Tuchman observes, is one quality indispensable to a good historian; the other is ability...
...directly." For an hour, Stockman rehearsed the toughest questions his aides could throw at him about the whole affair. Then he went off to face an overcrowded room full of reporters in the refurbished White House press quarters. He looked pale and frightened at first, his attempt at a wan smile quickly fading. Twice he paused in his prepared apology, gulping to regain control of his emotions...
...gaining in his battle with cytomegalovirus, an infection similar to mononucleosis, rumors persisted that he was more seriously ill than either hospital or Vatican officials were willing to admit. In a prerecorded television address to the International Eucharistic Conference in Lourdes last month, John Paul appeared as a wan reflection of his former robust self. Hunched over a table, his face pale and his hands trembling, he explained that "God has permitted that at present I myself, in my own body, experience suffering and weakness...
...revelation for Don, who still attends meetings at the center every Wednesday night. He's doing well now, and so is the marriage. Joyce would like to see the counseling program expanded?and one thing more. Says she with a wan smile: "I'd love to see a great big parade?one time, national." ?By Lance Morrow. Reported by Jeff Melvoin/Los Angeles and Peter Staler/New York, with other U.S. bureaus