Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing is clear. If the people are to enjoy a substantial degree of freedom, they must be prepared to surrender some of their freedom...
This is why the practice of freedom and the acknowledgement of social and political obligations go hand in hand. There needs to be a recognition that some freedom must be foregone to expand our capacity to enjoy freedom...
...grin permanently fixed on his rubbery face, he also won the amused affection of a worldwide audience. "I don't want to play the role of a clown," said the psychology major from the University of Southern California. "But I like to involve the audience with me. I enjoy...
...order to enjoy this film one must accept the idea that it is essentially no sillier to climb the world's highest mountain in order to ski down a few thousand feet than it is to climb to the summit in order to plant your country's flag there. Neither is a useful or sensible activity, but both have a certain absurd grandeur about them...
Once one adopts that view, it becomes possible to settle back and enjoy this filmed record of Yichiro Miura's 1970 expedition. He spent $3 million and involved upwards of 800 people in the attempt to position himself for a run of not more than a few minutes' duration up there on the roof of the world. The narration is adapted from a diary Miura kept during the several months of hiking and climbing required just to get to the top of his run. There are some attempts at prose poetry that are supposed to soar into...