Word: lessing
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...cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations and let the natural objects he studied speak for him. He hoped, in short, to be less romantic and more scientific...
This may help him preserve his sanity, but Lurie--resolutely blind, like Oedipus, to the less schematic aspects of life--loses everything else. "One gets used to things getting harder," he realizes. "One ceases to be surprised that what used to be as hard as hard can be grows harder yet." Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form. Its bleak vision lingers, shattering any hope of a redemptive state of grace...
Your articles on what awaits us in the next century were incredible and full of useful information [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Although we may live longer, resist baldness, cure innumerable diseases, grow and transplant brains, choose to be obese, eat less meat, reduce waste and not need to have sex to have babies, let's not forget to play. Play is essential for maintaining well-being. This will be especially true if we live longer and healthier lives. We'll need to lighten up and not be self-congratulatory in old age. MARC BEKOFF Professor of Biology University of Colorado...
Could it be that the mantra of last year and the year before--"Faster. Cheaper"--is this year's mantra too? You bet it is. In fact, lightning-quick machines for less than $1,000 have become so common that the issue is no longer productivity but entertainment and the push for real simplicity--the long coming of computers that are as easy to use as household appliances. The best computers at the turn of the millennium combine solid fundamentals (a fast processor, a roomy hard disk and a great screen) with a choice selection of new technologies, like rewritable...
...DRIVE'S THE THING Don't settle for less than a DVD-ROM, which can play your old CDs as well as dvd movies. Consider a built-in rewritable CD-ROM drive. It's great for making your own music discs and storing digital photos...