Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer run, Wittgenstein's legacy will prove to be the more valuable. Perhaps it will. Wittgenstein, like any other charismatic thinker, continues to attract fanatics who devote their life to disagreeing with one another (and, presumably, with my brief summary) about the ultimate meaning of his words. These disciples cling myopically to their Wittgenstein, not realizing that there are many great Wittgensteins to choose from. My hero is the one who showed us new ways of being suspicious of our own convictions when confronting the mysteries of the mind. The fact remains that one's first exposure to either...
...contact her family, but in a way that was her prerogative. And in a way, Keelin is the presumptuous one, going out looking for someone who doesn't want to be found. Aisling...is a person who escapes. She doesn't have a set gender, she doesn't cling to her past--she just blows off her past. She doesn't have any country or nationality. She doesn't stick with one lover. She is really someone who is escaping the boundaries of our bourgeois existence. I think she's an adventurer, a mad prophet...
...saddened that the administration would rather cling to the status quo than acknowledge the failings of its current system, even if it means doing so at the expense of its own students' welfare. Is this the kind of community we want to live in? Is it the kind of place we want to leave for those who come through these gates long after we are gone...
...mailman's calf. Mailer has said that in the old days Podhoretz was a merrier man. Perhaps years of contrarian outrage have grimmed down the merriness. But the admirable Podhoretz has always lived by the gospel according to George Orwell: "The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive...
...their loss. Or the time he was quick to arrive at the scene of a school-bus crash, comforting victims and helping the rescuers. But most important, the paper said, was his morality and courage under fire: the moment he was accused of wrongdoing, the principal resigned rather than cling to his job. "What was probably his last act as an educator--his resignation--may carry the strongest lesson," city editor Joel Mathis wrote. "Actions have consequences...