Word: lot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fulfilment of the senses; Heaven is the fulfilment of the mind. Thus, Heaven, as Dona Ana's father discovers, is a great bore to all but the men of genius whom the Life Force urges to greater and greater heights of self-knowledge and desire to improve the lot of humanity. In Hell, however, the conventional and dutiful are quite at home. The ephemeral, which they have sought before death, is in great abundance...
This lumping of three vigorous fields has apparently left a lot of people with the idea that not everybody in Social Relations knows what his co-workers are talking about. Two weeks ago, Professor Talcott Parsons, who runs Harvard's department, got a good chance to check up. He was appointed head of a Carnegie Corporation-supported committee, and he says its job is "integrating theory and finding the mutual implications of different parts of the field." In other words, Parsons is going to try to get his henchmen thinking and working on the same things...
...more. In these days of double-bedded Nash and reinstituted Lincoln Continental, the lot of the itinerant student has been further eased by the completion of the New Haven by-pass. Wilbur Cross to Merritt, Merritt to Wilbur Cross, the agony of transition will now be a few painless moments of tunnels and parkways and scenic beauty...
...thousands who celebrated the day, it did not seem funny at all. For at 90, John Dewey was still the nation's most noted living philosopher, who had perhaps had more influence on 20th Century America than any other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living...
...very high-pressure period for all concerned. Managers constantly check the time remaining both for the benefit of the coaches and the band. Valpey has to talk fast and say a lot, and he does so by minimizing the "do-or-die" aspects of his message and concentrating on the facts...