He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud.
“A schirrus of the favourable kind, may continue a long time almost harmless, unless it compresses the neighbouring vessels pretty much; as is observed by Van Swieten, though that learned physician says, that so long as a schirrus possesses any part of the body, it is plain there is reason to be in continual dread of something worse succeeding, &c. for whatever incites the motions of the humours, and quickens circulation, as passions of the mind, errors in diet, motions of the body, bruises, falls, fevers, &c. may change a benign schirrus into a deplorable cancer.
In the “realm of freedom,” the “heads” and “hands” of all unite in thoroughly cooperative and unantagonistically integrated production. Here a social architect, everyone planning and acting.
He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.