Word: attained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally, Images [Jan. 1] could not have included every event of this sort, but the violence in Lebanon that has caused immense devastation and misery, and threatens to attain wider and more sinister proportions in the region, was absent from your account. A tragedy of this order should have been included...
...Summer School opens with its largest student body ever. Michael Shinagel, director of the Summer School, reveals that 74 per cent of the enrollees have yet to attain puberty. "Welcome to Camp Harvard," Shinagel grins...
...only then conclude that the authors then equate self-respect with (a) a massive and determined drive to "make it to the top" and (b) a willingness to sacrifice friends and friendships in order to attain this. It would seem to me that the above two qualities manage to sum up quite concisely everything that is wrong, offensive and self-destructive in the character of the traditional American male: the obsessive tendency to predicate one's valuation of oneself entirely on one's occupational successes and an inability to derive satisfaction and security from personal relationships. Surely if one does...
...Eastern religions, even in the pre-packaged form they take when they are shipped over to the U.S. Many Hindus and Buddhists actually attain inner peace, actually experience their spiritual souls as part of the spiritual energy pervading the universe. Western religion is stingy: God came to earth (so the story goes) in only one incarnation, Jesus. In the East, there were many incarnations, many teachers, many who attained nirvana. The spiritual struggle in the East is not so hopeless, with divine grace coming in the last moments of submission and despair like some celestial cavalry riding over the hill...
...increase has generated optimism among women at the school about their future role in the business community. Herzlinger believes women in business can attain the goals they set for themselves. Women's lower average salaries, she says, are better explained by their choice of lower-paying fields, such as public-sector jobs, than by discrimination by financial institutions...