Word: endeavor
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...hose for creativity at Harvard. Such a pose, which the OFA strikes in its introductory pamphlet and in its newsletters, really overestimates the support provided by the University to the arts here. While the OFA does serve to centralize Harvard's efforts to inspire (and ability to control) artistic endeavor, it also over hypes the impact of the facilities and services it offers to student groups...
...commercialism and hype of the Centennial Olympics [SPECIAL, Aug. 5] could be found a level of courage in individual athletes by which we can all be inspired. We must increase our awareness of terrorism yet not be paralyzed by its threat. Let Centennial Park become a monument to this endeavor. MARY E. NOCE Liverpool, New York...
...while at the same time not stint on the elaborate ceremonies that give the crown most of its luster. One step in the right direction is that Wills is a fan of soccer, a game his countrymen are fanatic about but which most royals, who seem to associate athletic endeavor with horses, ignore...
...final-settlement negotiations to be started by the third year--which means now--and completed by the fifth year. Netanyahu says, "I am under no obligation to close an agreement because it takes two to agree; I am under obligation to negotiate for the next three years in an endeavor to reach an agreement, and my view is yes, autonomy for the Palestinians as a people, but not autonomy over land." On the Palestinian question, Netanyahu is kidding himself, and he risks dragging Israel into another armed confrontation with Palestinians...
...croaky, flat voice--but the strength of her music came from what she was singing, not how she was singing it. Unfortunately, on her new album, Gone Again, words fail her. The album deals with issues of mortality (the word heaven pops up in three songs), but the endeavor is marred by one song, Summer Cannibals, which comes complete with faux tribal chants and stereotypical images galore (boiling cauldrons and the like) along with a guttural, chanted chorus, "eat/eat/eat...