Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
...makers try to portray Republicans as incapable of compassion. Yet how compassionate is it to create a class of people who are dependent on government aid? What happens to self-respect and pride in oneself when circumstances dictated by the government virtually force you to live in a position only slightly above that of a beggar? This is not compassion; this is lunacy. We Republicans want to create an environment in which welfare is a way out of the cycle of poverty, not a one-way ticket to a life of dependency...
...While the growth of the number of Asian-Americans occupying campus leadership positions is something to comment on, perhaps one shouldn't get ahead of oneself necessarily in hailing the end of the glass ceiling," Cho says...
Procuring that amount of donations is obviously not one of the easiest tasks. Ernest E. Monrad '51, chair of the Divinity School's current fund-drive, calls donating "an unnatural act of divesting oneself of money...
...caring physicians who are concerned with the sick in this country," she lets the burdens of her own isolated case weigh too heavily upon the state of the nation. To expect to be treated like more than a stranger at UHS, one must take the time to introduce oneself and get to know one's way around. I did, and UHS has proved to be as familiar, as friendly and competent as my doctor back home...