Word: attempting
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Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints, the newest work from Chicana poet Pat Mora, is an attempt to create a literature to accompany the particular religious traditions of New Mexico. Overflowing with luscious color photographs of religious folk art (everything from pine wood statuettes of Jesus to napkins embroidered with the images of saints), Mora's book consciously tries to capture the combination of humility and religious pride that makes folk art so captivating. She attempts to give a voice to the shaky hands that manifested their faith through carving and sewing and painting...
...motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed in the attempt is not as important as his having tried...
...taking the climbing challenge as articulated so eloquently by Mallory. The mountainzone Web site makes for great reading as the current climbers dispatch their latest findings, but there is a commercial quality to it which is disturbing. Those of us interested in the stories of those who have attempted (successfully or unsuccessfully) to climb Everest are fascinated by the idea of the physical and mental strength required to attempt the summit...
...democracy relies on impartial toleration of all speech and we walk a dangerous line when we attempt to differentiate "good" speech from the "bad" and selectively filter out what may be detrimental to society. Indeed, it was terrible that two troubled teens unleashed years of bottled-up violence and hate by murdering 13 innocent individuals and wounding countless others. But the shooting would only be worsened if we added the First Amendment to the list of victims in critical condition...
Normally political commentary would be saved for Page 10, but Angelos, in a self-proclaimed attempt to improve U.S.-Cuban relations, has roped himself an ugly steer and pulled it onto the sports page...