Word: endeavorment
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...classical verse, has survived because of the beauty of its structure. A poem without structure, on a trivial theme, has no hope from the beginning. Thus, the first half of a poem from this volume: "dicketydicketydick / dicketydicketydick / click / priorities goals directions / smile solemnly see direction A / click / great country endeavor great leadership / inspirational fist follow fig. 2 / click / . . . " Such a poem, lacking content and a cohesive style, is hardly a poem at all. It depends for its survival, not on intrinsic merit of interest, but on currency. It makes no generic statement, just a personal snipe, and does this...
...essays are formal and abstract. They redefine polities as an endeavor to reconcile the maximum amount of personal honor with group solidarity. In a more cosmic sense, they re-evaluate citizenship and dissent in conceiving man as a striver for moaning through politics. Despite lapses into existentialist jargon. Walzer's "political journalism." belongs to the most lucid order of scholarship...
...than to feel, easier to succumb to apathy than to take a stand. "Human will begins in a 'no.' " he writes. "The 'no' is a protest against a world we never made, and it is also an assertion of one's self in the endeavor to remold and reform the world." Elsewhere he has said: "I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell...
...with a talem search for unknown actors in his upcoming documentary, ? Lives for Mississippi Ritchie's films have been hailed by critics for his inventive style in fusing the emotional impact of fictional drama with the harsh realism that makes them feature documentaries. The script for his current cinematographic endeavor is now being written by Jean Claude van Itallic '58, based upon William Bradford Huie's book about the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi...
...resounding defeat for American imperialism. With this in mind Fidel and the Cuban Communist Party have promoted the formation of Vietnamese, Korean, Bulgarian, Russian, and Danish brigades as well as one made up of Latin-American exiles to cut alongside the Cuban people in a truly international endeavor...