Word: orienteers
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...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...
...world more realistically, all can account in part for the wide acceptance of -or at least resignation to-the age's swift reversals of governmental policy. Yet there may be a further explanation for the readiness of most Americans to applaud Nixon's outreach to the Orient. However passionate they may feel about a friend or foe at one moment, Americans as a people find it hard to carry a grudge for long. They are quick to forgive and forget a past wrong. Says Author-Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Americans want to live at peace with the next fellow...
Warrior Arts of the Orient, a demonstration of Aikido, Iaido, Sai, Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, and the Samurai sword. John Hancock Hall...
...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...
This Monod-style philosophy has special implications for man, which Monod is equally lavish about pointing out. Behavior, he believes, acts to orient the pressures of selection, but is not itself distinct from the invariant chemical composition of the organism. Man's great break with the rest of the natural world came with the development of linguistic capabilities (by chance again) which led-to-the enlargement of the brain (by selective pressures, again) and the ensuing host of conscious performances. Man, then, is bound as much as any other organism to his history as an evolutionary freak: A purely random...