Fifty years later, it occurred to an amiable U.C.L.A. graduate student named Chris Ferguson to apply game-theory concepts to grand-master poker.
There her father spends his days and night drinking and watching television, while she roams the waterfront with fellow outsiders Denis, an amiable special-education student, and Kyle.
Less than a week into their visit, they confessed in an interview in the Rubin's cafe that they were still terrified to leave their apartment without their translator, Tashi Dorji, an amiable Bhutanese graduate student in international affairs at Columbia University.
Those who worked side by side with him saw an amiable if intensely shy student with a quick smile and a laconic air, whose quirky sense of humor surfaced in goofy jokes — "Take that to the bank," he said while giving a presentation about an enzyme known as A.T.M. — and wry one-liners.
In the aftermath, she met Lolo Soetoro, an amiable, easygoing, tennis-playing graduate student from the Indonesian island of Java.
The session was part of a pilot program pairing anxiety-prone business school students at American University with amiable, if unpredictable, dogs.
This election is destined to be remembered as a contest between an aspiring student-body president and an amiable slacker, to paraphrase an incisive description by The Times's Maureen Dowd.
To judge from her student evaluations, she was less an amiable mediocrity than a controversial iconoclast, striking some as a master teacher and others as an incoherent mess.
Her amiable personality and rigorous research contributed to her growing popularity among home economics students and staff.
"I had a very amiable dinner with Sir Eric Anderson, who incidentally was at Lincoln College [Oxford] when I was a student there and is now chairman of the school's governing body, and I talked to Tony Little [Eton's head master].
That night the two corporate giants pledge to find an amiable way to close the school budget gap, avert a teachers strike, and promote more equitable student learning.
