Word: hosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to "Process and Reality," this universe is made up of a host of beings. Whitehead called them "actual occasions." Each was a point where the finished met the possible, where the ideas of God joined history, where the physical was interwoven with the mental. Each according to him, "prehended," laid hold of and made internal to itself all that lay beyond it, in the world that had been and in the world that might be, to constitute a novel present unity. Each was the juncture of the whole of the past and the whole of the future...
...London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
...Christmas Conference of the Student League for Industrial Democracy at Detroit will be host to a large delegation from its Harvard counterpart...
...natators dive into regular competition on Saturday night when they play host to the Greenwood...
...famed muralist had pumped bullets at him from a .45 semiautomatic. "Nonsense," cried Artist David Siqueiros. At the moment Rivera was supposed to have been squeezing the trigger, he was actually in Jose Clemente Orozco's apartment heaving charges of artistic ineptitude at his host and Siqueiros himself...