Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should qualify that, however. Sports cliches are easily understood. Some other cliches are not. How many of us really understood what Socrates meant when he said "The unexamined life is not worth living? And how many of us took true note when Hegel wrote "The actual is the rational?" (I just threw that...
...would like to take this opportunity of reaffirm our support for direct election of Undergraduate Council executives and congratulate the council on taking the necessary steps to turn direct elections into a reality. Popular election of executives would add accountability to the council and increase its actual representation of the student body; they would also give council leaders greater legitimacy as student representative before the administration...
With all the controversy and confusionsurrounding the actual intentions of thecommittee, Robert Mitchell, a Board member for theorganization for paranormal Understanding andSupport, said "There's a lot of innuendo andhearsay going on, but nobody knows for sure...
...them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money worked in his favor, since refusal to talk about it made it the unspoken subject of every exchange...
...began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap powder colors on cardboard most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand alone in its own space, mattered to him, and after that was done he would often leave the picture to be attacked by mildew or chewed by rats...