Blitz believed that Hal's stuttering was a metaphor for his lack of mastery of life and love: "He can't control this thing that ought to be so simple .
But Joey harbors the ghost of his father's fiddle, and is drawn inescapably to a battered old upright found in the street, and to Mr. Hirk, a music teacher with crippled hands who tutors him in scales and the mastery of "Indian Love Call".
Known as a raconteur and for his infectious joie de vivre, Matthew will always be treasured for his sense of adventure, mastery of sailing and love of the sea, poetry and prose, but most of all his acts of generosity and kindness.
"Wallscape" is, in its exquisite way, an epic performance, a lesson in creative economy, a tribute to existing art, an acknowledgment of ethnicity and its politics, an exercise in personal mastery, and an expression of love for all of that.
He was smarter than anyone else, but also poignantly aware that being smart didn't necessarily get you very far, and that the most visible manifestations of smartness — wide erudition, mastery of trivia, rhetorical facility, love of argument for its own sake — could leave you feeling empty, baffled and dumb.
Funding that did remain available for language arts went to programs emphasizing basic skills like phonics and spelling rather than the love and mastery of reading.
In 2005, the self-confessed and anointed cricket tragic" merged his favourite pastimes; his mastery of geo-politics and his love of cricket when he visited Pakistan, the dark hinterland of the Eurasian landmass.
With an inherent, although not widely known, mastery of language and a deep love for music, Duchovny's poised to do it again--or at least earn a few nods of respect--proving himself to be the unexpected Renaissance man.
She is also the author of Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person.
Dr. Sherrie Campbell is a veteran psychologist and the author of Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person.
