Word: ponderer
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...general's daughter-and the trajectory of his life veers sharply downward. For no reason that he has been trained to calculate, the marriage sours. He resigns from the military, hoping to please his wife, and only succeeds in driving her back to an ex-lover. He must ponder mysteries too large to be circumscribed by a gun sight: "They had started off on the wrong foot, not only when they had first met, but from the day they were born in their separate corners of the universe...
...behaved pretty much like chimps" until around 10,000 B.C., Jaynes said last week in an interview in Boston. The minds of these prehistoric creatures could solve simple problems and think crudely, much like rats performing in a maze, but they lacked the ability to reflect on the past, ponder the present, or imagine the future. Language developed in the eons between 100,000 and 10,000 B.C., but Jaynes insists that this ability--while important for the development of consciousness in the future--emerged independently. Just as somnambulists and people under hypnosis can speak perfectly intelligible English without...
...rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self-fulfilling relation between psychology and culture. "'Leiben und arbeiten' (to love and to work)," Erikson wrote in Childhood and Society, quoting Freud's description of psychological health. "It pays to ponder on this simple formula," Erikson says. "It gets deeper as you think about...
After the team's overwhelming performance, coach Bill McCurdy expressed guarded optimism about the future. "We should be able to handle Yale on Tuesday without any emotional jag, but Northeastern in the GBC's will be the big question to ponder...
...true that there are times when experience can be misread and misused to prevent needed change. Back in the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson used to ponder the idea of asking the Red Chinese to talk with him. "I figure that the only way we can ever resolve our problems is if we sit down somewhere together," he mused. "But my diplomats tell me we can't do it now." Richard Nixon chose to ignore that same diplomatic advice. He went to China...