Hugely gifted, he was also scatterbrained, unreliable and, at the end, addicted to laudanum.
Given the top-flight standardised scores and the okay grades, I think he's probably underperforming, failing to get her to develop to potential; she's scatterbrained (also runs in the family) and forgets to study for her geography tests.
If the shy or the scatterbrained take cognitive enhancers, it is not obvious whether this is levelling their playing field or giving them an unfair advantage.
It still looks scatterbrained, spontaneous and naive but this time there's an added confidence - hers and ours - that it will all come together and make sense in the end.
Fay remains as scatterbrained as ever, barely able to take stock of her son's misbehavior in school ("You're grounded, like, forever"), let alone of the wider warpings beyond.
This game of positive and negative charges, a sort of alternating current, is announced in the play's first beat, when Dr. Givings's sweetly scatterbrained wife, Catherine (the pert Laura Benanti), plays with an electric light to amuse her newborn daughter.
It is runty, scatterbrained Diane, and not handsome, efficient Linda, who is the common-law wife of Moïse Espinas, the lead Tekameli singer and "possessor of the greatest voice north of Barcelona".
But Dumile's books were like his songs — scatterbrained and disorganized, a series of potentially humorous couplets.
A game of positive and negative charges is announced in the play's first beat, when Catherine (the pert Laura Benanti), the sweetly scatterbrained wife of Dr. Givings (Michael Cerveris), plays with an electric light to amuse her newborn daughter.
"She was kind of daffy, endearingly scatterbrained, with this butterfly mind," he told me.
From one moment to the next, he is as sweet and naive as a storybook shepherdess, as dirty-mouthed and -minded as a sailor on shore leave, as scatterbrained as Lucy Ricardo, as serene as a Tibetan monk or as no-nonsense as an old Broadway trouper.
