THOSE personal anomalies, he said, fueled an initial fascination with what happened in Laramie, and that fascination grew as he and his actors gathered material from a wide assortment of townspeople.
"An initial fascination," he notes, "in the writings of Condillac, Rousseau, and Diderot with sign language as the original language of action soon gave way to the categorizations entailed by a new distinction between the normal and the pathological states of the body.
At a certain point in rehearsals, Mr. Dinwiddie said, his initial fascination with objects had become a red herring.
It was this initial fascination that led him towards a career as an economist.
After my initial fascination with this, I soon settled into a hand full of sounds and effects.
Initial fascination is speedily undermined, however, as visitors move through rooms made successively narrower by metal plates, while the horrific consequences are projected along the sides.
Despite my initial fascination with the language of the academy, I'm not a proponent of taking its language into the real world: jargon can serve as a barrier and intimidate those just trying to sort out the basics.
Now that the initial fascination with bobbleheads has worn off, fans expect more from them, said Vince Gennaro, the author of "Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball" and a consultant to several teams.
As Hovhaness's initial fascination with Armenian music expanded, his curiosity led him further and further afield, first to India, where he lived in 1959 and 1960, then Indonesia, and finally to Japan, China and Korea.
While these attacks were partially due to his initial fascination with the Soviet Union, they were primarily due to his focus on social ills and problems in American society, which struck many as unpatriotic.
After the initial fascination, the standard positivist (and post-positivist) reaction to operationalism was disappointment, and operationalism was often seen as a failed philosophy that did not live up to its promises.
