Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healing powers. But the central figure is a tiresome young don, Alfred Ludens, who is preoccupied with genius -- he is writing a book about Leonardo -- and obsessed by Vallar. The subplot involves a pigheaded painter and his attempts to maintain a particularly grotesque menage a trois. There is some wit here; the book could in fact be viewed as a send-up of Doris Lessing's more apocalyptic fictional efforts. But in Murdoch's best work, the characters have more zip than these do. On to Novel...
...Herschel Baker was a man whose great learning, meticulous scholarship, and immense zest for his work displayed his distinction as a scholar and as a teacher," said Higginson Professor of History Wallace MacCaffrey, a longtime friend. "The same elegance of manner and of wit which he displayed in the classroom and in his books won him the respectful but warm affections of students, colleagues and a wide circle of friends...
...excellent teacher," said W. Speed Hill, an English professor as the University of New York who studied with Baker and later dedicated a book to his former professor. "That I admired and esteemed him goes without saying. He was an austere man with a wonderfully dry wit...
...Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks the deadpan wit of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or the bomb-throwing audacity of Soap...
...Extra-Terrestrial (1982). All of Steven Spielberg's gifts -- his narrative gusto and suburban wit, his technical finesse and an emotional directness that buoys the heart -- blend sublimely in this fable of intergalactic friendship. One of the greats...