Word: interestedness
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Basically coming to the United States when you're 47 or 48, it is impossible to transform yourself completely into an American. On the other hand the United States to me is an extremely inspiring, challenging, a country that makes you think every day - in contrast to Holland. I was...
On April 3, the President again accused Democrats of being "more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need." Such demagoguery is particularly outrageous given the Administration's inability to provide our troops "what they need" at the nation's premier hospital for veterans...
I was interested to read about the flourishing buffalo population, but the author couldn't resist reminding us that the species Bison bison is not a true buffalo [March 26]. I don't understand the zeal for upholding this distinction when similar misidentities are usually ignored. For example, the pronghorn...
“I’m most interested in trying to understand how people view certain things, how they conceptualized them. This is to a degree intellectual archaeology. You try to forget about dominant perceptions. We [tend to] look at the past through our modern fears, our modern hopes...
With a few exceptions, this sort of suggestive imagery is as close as In Europe comes to grand pronouncements or provocative arguments about the history or future of the Continent. The book is a subtle study, dealing in moods, not discourse. It is, after all, titled In Europe, not On...