Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...warmer spheres. Some of the lucky will fly to Florida or Puerto Rico for spring training. For the rest of us, we must confine our sweat and adrenaline to the raftered halls of the I.A.B., the I.T.T., or Blodgett Pool, names that conjure up images of corporate investment firms instead of lush green Elysian fields...
...someone trying toact. When he addresses the audience--as he does frequently--Goldstien fidgets, never quite knowing what to do with his hands. He ruins some of Dysart's wittiest (and in their wry humor, extremely revealing) lines by trying too hard to sound flip and sarcastic; he sounds, instead, like Clark Gable faking a British accent. Yet, Goldstien captures some of his character's most elusive qualities; perceiving the slender line between detached interest and perverse fascination, he expresses well the seduction and repulsion in Dysart as he delves into Alan's psyche...
...emotional void, a man whose powerful intelligence has numbed him to his painful existence. A dry, analytical shrink, his self-obsession reaches gargantuan proportions. Given to endless Dostoyevskian musings about his place in the Universe, Dysart recognizes the shallowness of his life, but refuses to deal with it--instead, tossing off witty, erudite quips about his plight. His ability to diagnose and categorize all his quirks and impulses merely intensifies his self-loathing. He realizes his compulsion to play God, to tackle the illnesses of his patients so that he can absorb their agony, thus setting them free...
Majorie K. Jeffcoat, assistant professor of Periodontology at the Dental School, said yesterday tetracycline would not replace surgical treatment but instead would function as an "adjunct to therapy...
...said the university reduced its faculty-salary budget by $750,000 after a review committee determined which empty faculty positions could remain unfilled. But she added that Yale, instead of reducing faculty salaries, is actually improving financial benefits for its professors...