Word: grasps
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...this argument. If I am convinced that I am a failure, I probably will fail. If I am having trouble with a problem and I am assured that I am smart enough to figure out the answer, I will probably try harder, newly aware that it is within my grasp. However, the all-powerful selfesteem workshop can be very dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, especially when the information we have been given about self-esteem is somewhat questionable...
...grasp what it means to be 120 years old, consider this: a woman in the U.S. now has a life expectancy of 79 years. Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, reached that advanced age back in 1954, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Stalin had just passed from the scene. Twenty-two years later, at age 100, Calment was still riding her bicycle around town, having outlived both her only child and grandchild. And 20 years after that, she was charming the photographers and reporters who arrived in droves last week, along with the French Minister of Health...
Certainly, artists who weren't white and male faced enormous difficulties in acquiring respect and recognition during Lewis' era. "Images and Identities" doesn't do enough with this problem. It tends to grasp at straws where Longfellow and Lewis' relationship is concerned. The brochure accompanying the exhibition says, "Upon first examination, Longfellow and Lewis would seem to have little in common." By the end of the show, we realize that, indeed, Longfellow and Lewis don't have much in common. "Images and Identities" starts out on the right foot, but looses its way among rhetoric and generalizations...
...Applicants who do well show a certain degree of spark," says Kramer. "Who do you want taking care of your grandmother? You want someone very smart, ready to grasp complex scientific situations and explain them simply to a patient...
...research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final rebuttal on admittedly risky ground: what Andorsky dubs that "nice sentiment" about the space station being an inspiration to humanity and a symbol of "what's right with America" and the world. Andorsky fumbles in his effort to get a grasp on the value of idealism, perhaps because there is no universally accepted definition. Yet it strikes me as significant, and compelling, that the same president who exhorted the American people to "ask what you can do for your country" also declared that "we choose to go to the Moon...