Word: abandonement
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...started on “Anna Karenina” out of pure boredom. My copy of the 900-page Tolstoy epic, a remnant of my mother’s college days, had crinkled yellowed pages and minuscule font. I fully expected to abandon it after a few pages. But I was drawn in by the lush portrayal of 19th-century aristocracy, the disturbed internal monologues of the protagonists, and the philosophical reflections on farming. For me, Anna’s romantic set-up was merely the framework upon which a richer novel could unfold...
...means that Russia’s ‘economic reforms’ can claim credit for the impoverishment of 72 million people in only eight years.” Or consider South Africa, where an African National Congress disciplined by the whims of transnational capital was forced to abandon its apartheid-era radicalism and fall in line: from 1994 to 2006, the number of people living under $1 per day doubled to four million, while the unemployment rate for black South Africans increased from 23 percent in 1991 to 48 percent...
...such confusion is born from the lack of cohesion of Transcendentalism, itself: As Gura points out at the very beginning of his book, no one Transcendentalist shared the same definition of Transcendentalism with any other. Although his effort to accurately portray each element of the movement forces him to abandon linear narrative, Gura’s careful attention to every detail and variation of thought within the movement gives his work its authority. His vibrant representation of the Transcendental thinkers beautifully characterizes both their philosophies and their personalities. Emerson, he explains, was “not so much imposing...
...knows for sure whether the new method of producing pluripotent cells will pan out or where the next big developments will come from. We are still many thresholds away from anything that can be of practical value to me and others. Scientifically, it makes no sense to abandon any promising avenue just because another has opened...
Given all the disruption, all the crowding of bosses who can track us down anywhere, anytime, the fears that our gadgets may make us ruder and dumber and more easily distracted, it's a natural temptation to abandon technology, or at least vacation from it occasionally. First-time--and best-selling--author Timothy Ferriss has become a Silicon Valley darling by pushing his low-information diet as the secret to achieving The 4-Hour Workweek, which among other things involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really...