Word: interaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollis: To the degree that you can not find tenured Black faculty on several faculties on this campus. I think that students can make decisions, but those decisions are less well-informed, and they are less well-prepared when they leave here, to interact fruitfully with society, and indeed, to accomplish the things that you would have them make choices about...
Despite these dramatic alterations in the international arena, the ways in which nations interact with each other, the basic methods of intercourse, have remained surprisingly constant. As former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban argues convincingly in his book The New Diplomacy, the only true novelty in international relations is the increase in number of nations involved...
...reciting their lines by rote as if they're reading from the script. From the sense of ennui and uncertainty the actors themselves generate, it is difficult to determine whether they lack adequate preparation or are simply sick of reciting the same old lines. When the characters occasionally do interact with each other, the result seems more like children squabbling over marbles than adults bickering over marriage...
From the opening scene between Kit and Rudd, the play begins its descent downhill. Though Howe makes a noble attempt to enliven the show with frequent gesticulations and facial expressions, she fails to interact with the others on stage. Her performance fluctuates depending upon the scene, unlike her voice which seems locked in an interminable monotone. Haynes encounters similar difficulty. His emotions vary little throughout the performance, and he generates about as much enthusiasm for proposing marriage as he does when discussing the weather...
...will only listen. Says Dr. Bennett Leventhal of the University of Chicago's Child Psychiatry Clinic: "We now know that babies send messages very early. In their first year of life, they are good students. They are also very good teachers, but they have to have someone to interact with them. There are sometimes very competent babies with very incompetent parents...