Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This victory also marked the first time Joy stepped into an actual boxing ring. Due to funding conflicts and sharing spaces with other teams, Harvard does not have its own ring...
Describing her first experience in an actual ring, Joy said, "It was awesome--the lights--loud noises--everyone really rowdy. They love chick fights. The crowd went nuts...
...breakthrough novel, Neuromancer, on an ancient manual typewriter--but as near as he could tell, everybody who worked much with the machines eventually came to accept, almost as an article of faith, the reality of that imaginary realm. "They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen," he says. "Some place that you can't see but you know is there...
TIME emphatically agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME's phrase but the factual report of typical angry reactions documented by correspondents all over the U.S. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alternative to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in inverse ratio to accuracy. In actual fact, I did not prescribe mescaline for all mankind. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss the problem of a satisfactory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would certainly be preferable...