Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experimenting with pure electrical sound and adding a second drummer into the group. The two drummers were to become a much initiated rock convention, most effectively exploited by Carlos Santana and the late Duane Allman. The Dead throbbed with a will to create and their second album was an endeavor unpretentiously titled Anthem of the Sun. And if you don't think that that work is a genuinely artistic statement--a portrait of the energy source of both nature's world and (excuse the philosophic indulgence) the world of the soul I'd advise you to listen to it again...
There is no empirical evidence that athletic competition in any way strengthens the personality of an individual any more than any other endeavor. Athletics reward the egos of those who are already mentally fit, resilient, and strong: but competition may have serious detrimental effects on the athlete with less emotional maturity...
...justification for the attempts of his mother and teachers to control him for his own good. However, Jackson did not see it that way and reacted accordingly. He sensed something innately wrong in his mother's efforts to circumscribe his movements about the neighborhood and in St. Malachy's endeavor to convince him "that love--touching fingertips, mouths, bellies, legs--was nasty." Perhaps if his mother and his school had backed their efforts with rational explanations of what had prompted them to try to control him or if they had satisfied his curiosity about the world and himself in other...
...unfortunate aspects of Vietnam is the overwhelming importance of the United States involvement. "Free world assistance" military or civilian has not been sufficient even to provide a facade of international endeavor. And Russia did not make the mistake of being absent from the UN, as it did at the time of Korea. In terms of world esteem and political support, the U.S. has paid a high price for its solitary position. For the sake of Vietnam. South East Asia as a whole, to say nothing of the United States, it is of great importance that the security, prosperity...
...Diego State College contend that "the personality of the ideal athlete is not the result of any molding process but comes out of the ruthless selection process that occurs at all levels of sport." The authors further argue that "athletic competition has no more beneficial effects than intense endeavor in any other field...