Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy to learn that you will be entering the elementary apprenticeship program in September. Although mimeographed greetings are rarely adequate. I hope nonetheless to convey my pleasure in the knowledge that you will be with us. I know that these sentiments are shared by my colleagues in the elementary staff...
...calling they may preserve its ideals of truth, integrity and fairness. We offer Thee our heartfelt thanks, O Lord, as we count the blessings of TIME'S 40 fruitful years." The cardinal then read a telegram from the Vatican: "Holy Father Pope John XXIII requests Your Eminence to convey his greetings to the assembly, expressing prayerful hope that the meeting may further the cause of peace and brotherhood of mankind." Himself Is Here. As toastmaster, Editor in Chief Luce introduced the guests with him on the dais. When he finished, there was a bustle at the rostrum as news...
...said earlier, Freud's work highlights the contemporary relevance of James. Though this is so, James has more to offer Freudians than they can ever hope to convey to him in return. "The power of the id," according to Freud, "expresses the true purpose of the individual organism's life. This consists in the satisfaction of its innate needs." In an analogous statement James remarks, "Only in so far as they lead us, successfully or unsuccessfully, back into sensible experience again, are our abstracts and universals true or false...
Perhaps laughter or weeping is the only suitable response to such statements. But there may be an important implication. The table of triads presented above is intended to convey a sense of the struggle for satisfaction and fulfilment on numerous levels. James, one can argue, did not wish to restrict his notion of mediation to philosophy alone but visualized it as the very essence of life. Animal, vegetable, human--all must play the game. Indeed, for a man with his background in the life sciences such an extension was quite natural...
This retort can only be feeble, compared with what I feel. I wish I had the talent to adequately convey how revolted I am by this kind of hooliganism. Consider this letter a panicky gasp, on my part, for some clean...