Word: mind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innocence removed, we can now understand precisely what is implied in his associate professorship and the "certainlicense" of his 40th year. There is, to my mind, something inherently parental--or, anagramatically, paternal--about both the stature granted by his academic position and the stature concomitant with his age. His "certain license" is more a "certain censure" should we not take up his passionate lance. Nor would Professor Blumenthal want it any other...
...rebellious period as a senior. "You couldn't get close to him," remembers Marjorie Banks, his old Sunday school teacher and the wife of former Chicago Cubs star Ernie Banks. "When you talked to him, he'd see you and yet he didn't see you. His mind was always on something else...
MICHAEL BOLTON: SOUL PROVIDER (Columbia). Singer-songwriter Bolton, a white rhythm-and-bluesman from New Haven, Conn., finally hits his stride here. High point: Georgia on My Mind, on which his uncanny four-octave range and gut- wrenching phrasing give Ray Charles a serious run for the money...
MOYERS: THE PUBLIC MIND (PBS, debuting Nov. 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). Public TV's resident big-think man is back with a four-part series on the role of image in modern life, especially as revealed through the media...
...catching up is a 20-year-old wearing a leather cross, dangling earrings and a black leather cap angled on a head that is shaved but for red tendrils over an ear. He sits in his jaunty outfit learning fractions and writing poems. The young man's mind is so keen that when a deaf student came to class, he learned to sign in half an hour. This makes him think he may eventually work with the handicapped, but until this year he was not a dedicated student. "I'm quicksilver," he says. "I need stability. Everything else has shifted...