Word: endeavour
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...this time was the burden of the past the notion that earlier poets had expressed everything original that was to expressed about man and his existence, and had done it so well. While we do not associate the eighteenth century with the most prolitic periods of creative endeavour, it should be recalled that Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge were all children of the age. And although their craft may not be quite's scintillating as the more famous poets before and after their time, the minor poets Lonsdale has uncovered do add credence to the notion that as long as there...
...primitive art, Douglas Newton, to bring the work to the U.S. was conspicuously worthwhile. For Americans, a walk through the Metropolitan's exhibit is a voyage of discovery, as astonishing as the sight of Maori art must have been in 1769, when Captain James Cook's Endeavour first touched New Zealand's shore. When the ship's artist, Sydney Parkinson, went inland, he marveled at the Maoris' "particular taste for carving...
Growing up with the Red Sox is usually a heartbreaking endeavour. Indeed, part of the beauty of being...
...ARMY, so they say, when there was a draft and honorable wars and patriotism, one of a solider's duties was digging holes and then moving them. It must have been an activity that inspired a certain existential awareness of the limited significance of human endeavour- probably permanently imprinting the enlisted man's psyche in the process. Apparently, some of the individuals thus psychologically disfigured joined the MBTA following military service and conceived the idea of the Harvard Square extension of the Red Line...
...asked to socialize informally with the Faculty members in their departments. These women believe I think correctly that the associations one forms in graduate school with senior people in one's field are critical to one's development as a scholar. As in any other kind of endeavour--and perhaps more than in most--"mentors" are crucial to the growth of the sense of oneself as a scholar. Yet a number of male Faculty members have told me recently that they intend henceforth to be much more careful in showing personal interest in women students. Invitations to coffee may become...