Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of them now was George Wald, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist -- for the moment turned political activist. As he mentioned the necessity of world peace and the now famous military-industrial-labor union complex, young defensive alumni lashed back. "You seem to have left words like 'freedom' and 'liberty' out of your presentation," a 1949 graduate pointed out. And another slight 'fifties alum snapped that "As a management consultant for a six years, I've been at the intermediary level in government defense contractors negotiations, and I defy anyone to link the two in collusion...
...victory over M.I.T. today is doubly important because the game counts towards the Greater Bostons League title. Harvard is seeking its tenth champion-ship in seventeen years. With victories over Boston University and Boston College, the Crimson leads the league standings at the moment...
...That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter. Why anything? Because this moment simply is. have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber...
This means that death isn't an "event" that "happens" to you. But you death is part of the way you're defined, part of the way you always exist. If you think of yourself as being "alive" at this particular moment, that's just because you are visiting this part...
Free Will, it can be seen, is a concept whose existence depends on an individual's not knowing what "the future" will be like. (For Tralfamadorians, the future can be defined as those moments whose determining conditions are taking shape in the moment presently being visited. We say the future comes "after" now.) If we can understand time to be an entity that always exists in its entirety, then the irritating concept of free will dissolves into pleasant nothingness...