Word: pioneeringly
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...soldier, and of course a novelist, but all other work is trivial. In the work of a more rounded novelist, Willa Cather ... success is admired, but only success in the past: the new men that have arisen to seize it are grubby, narrow, without vision, unlike the heroic pioneer generation with its integrity, honor, heroism. William Faulkner turned in a similar performance in [several] of his novels, whose point was often that in contemporary life only the swinish succeed, that the day of the men of character is past...
...Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...pioneer of Middle East shuttle diplomacy back on the bargaining trail? Not at all, he said at a press conference in Mit Abu el Kom. "I did not come here to negotiate. I did not come here with any message. I did not come with any ideas to speed up any peace process...
Lilly, however, was primarily interested in using the tank-sometimes with drugs-to explore "new inner domains of thinking." By increasing buoyancy and reducing the input to the senses, the tank can indeed produce bizarre effects. But Milton Greenblatt, a pioneer in sensory deprivation research and associate director of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says he knows of no serious therapist who uses the tank, because it "produces symptoms rather than allaying them...
...report, says SPS Pioneer Peter Glaser, "is a landmark study that should go a long way to dispel the apprehensions and just plain misunderstandings about solar power satellites...