Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period vary. Some think it should be radically revised. They agree only that it is a most refreshing experience. One professor describes students as "running panting up the hill" to Bard when returning from these periods. One wonders whether the refreshment is worth the eight weeks of academic endeavor which are lost...
After they renounce their lives as Paris copy clerks and move to the country, Bouvard and Pecuchet hop from one intellectual endeavor to the other. Their failure at preserving vegetables leads them to chemistry, and each successive disappointment leads to a new venture: geology, biology, medicine, verse, politics, literary criticism. Each new "study" leaves them uncertain and confused, but they feel sure that with one more book, one more discovery, a certain subject will become entirely clear to them...
...being lived in the present, and relished as an experience not only in retrospect, with most academic achievement, but in the joyful labor day by day. Academic work is usually done alone, but in working on a play life assumes the character it has at its beat: a cooperative endeavor by many people, joined by a common interest working toward a common goal...
...happy result of revealing clearly the breadth and the highly specialized nature of White's particular genius. It reveals also, in White's own words, "a man unable to sit still for more than a few minutes at a time, untouched by the dedication required for sustained literary endeavor, yet unable not to write...
Slump & Shutdown. Last week all Florence was caught up in La Pira's latest Christian endeavor: persuading the government to take over the shut-down Pi-gnone factory on Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January...