Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem credible enough. A discreet door at the corner of the Science Center belies the cavernous two-story room behind it: a blast of warm air and the loud rush of machinery engulf the visitor as the door swings shut on a familiar world that is light, breezy and boundless. Inside, the huge water tanks that dwarf green-uniformed workers and the computer control room could grace the set of any James Bond science fiction scenario...
...stresses the problem was not with his Harvard experience. His satisfaction with that--all the vodka collinses, the clubs, his thesis (I'm really glad I wrote a thesis, it was the most worth-while academic experience I've had here")--is virtually boundless. It has instilled in him a sense of obligation to the University, which he started paying off as chairman of the "special gifts" section ($100 or more donation) of the senior gift drive. "I owe my loyalty and support to Harvard," he says. He took part in the fund drive as "a show of thanks...
...winds up in Dachau. To be fair, that is not all of romanticism, but it is the worst of it, and the worst has done the world a good deal of damage. For the 18th century, man was man-size. For the 19th and 20th, his size has been boundless, which has meant that he has had little sense of his own proportion in relation to everything else-resulting either in exaggerated self-pity or in self-exaltation-and practically no stable appreciation of his own worth...
Hoagland's latest collection of essays. The Tugman's Passage, provides a handful of these observations which testify strongly to the author's boundless curiosity. From the title essay about the life and work of tugboat sailors to the last of the short editorials on nature that Hoagland pens of the New York Times, the work are highly crafted. In stylistic terms, Hoagland's reputation as one of the foremost essayists working is well deserved, he has a terrifically readable idiom of his own fashioning at once colloquial, rhythmic and incredibly even. His writing gives a sense of quiet passion...
...distinctive Southern drawl his extensive repertoire of collected facts and stories spanning his 45 years at the University. He recaptures, as if they occurred yesterday, the lives of former students and colleagues, his own research, and most importantly his affection for the current undergraduates for whom his "admiration is boundless...