Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...asks the reader--Percy? Allison? It would be very easy for he author to clean up some of these passages--like Barrett's first-person tirades against his father, unexpectedly thrown into passages of third-person narrative--simply by substituting a name for a pronoun here, adding quotation marks there...
...really work on developing the very best record that I possibly can so that when my tenure decision comes up I will be able to get tenure at a very good institution. Period. That frees you to some extent to feel as if you can be an autonomous person...
...reduce the victim's trauma, only one unit officer--of the same sex--interviews the victim. Sullivan says, "It's a delicate balance to be able to be sensitive to a person's feelings and to still elicit the information necessary to prosecute, but most women are receptive to another woman showing up. That surprised me. An equally compassionate and sensitive man will probably do as well, but he often feels uncomfortable...
...unconscious source.... This type of person serves Soviet interests and works under KGB control without realizing what he is doing. Lenin used to call such people useful idiots. Without being conscious KGB agents, they are often in a position to accomplish far more for the Soviet Union than the people who are knowingly working...
...Russell, a casting director may have interviewed dozens of candidates and culled from memory hundreds more. Most of the directors, like Fenton, attend as many plays as they can in Los Angeles and make regular tours of off-Broadway. "We have a standing rule in our office that each person must go to two or three theatrical productions a week," says Jennifer Shull, casting director for Coppola's new Hollywood studio. "The job requires thoroughness. You have to look where others...