Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge that, while she was out of town, her husband had run an ad in a newspaper personal column which read: "Man, 53, old car, no looks, no job, no qualities, no money, no hero, no nothing, seeks congenial companion to go places and do things in pursuit of happiness," had received more than 30 answers, with comments like "Looks is only skin deep" and "I'll mother my man . . . I'm a little good and a little...
...time. Christian ideals, he said, had to animate the policy of a Christian civilization. But, he added, we must not forget that man's nature was dual: part of it selfish, greedy and ignoble. If anyone thought the U.S. could be in a better position in the pursuit of peace by being weak, he had to disagree with them 100%. Ike said the U.S. had to be strong, but when it did become secure and safe, there would be no nation more ready to meet its enemies in good will for the purpose of devoting the sweat and toil...
...Overcoat, the acquisition and loss of an overcoat by a clerk somewhere in pre-revolutionary Russia; in Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, the liberation and recovery of a hunting falcon in the garden of an expatriate lady somewhere in France; and in Faulkner's The Bear, the pursuit of an unusually large bear in the boondocks of post-bellum Mississippi...
...Shapley's major pursuit is charting the heavens. He has great enthusiasm in his cosmography course for non-scientists, requiring only a "persistent curiosity" for this inquiry into man's place on Observatory Hill. Here, lighting a cigar, writing to his science friends who include the Pope, or plotting some new star, he shows himself to be a man and an astronomer of the first magnitude...
...perceptions in the diary, he is constant in applying a method of coldly objective analysis to matters of the human heart. This method is what he called Beylism. It is the psychological method he applied in his novels, the fruit of his self-analysis and his very special pursuit of happiness. In all of this he demanded candor and sincerity, but he knew where to draw the line. "It is not impossible," he wrote, "to be bored when with a mistress, but that boredom should not be shown; it would lose...