Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make money or to advertise the qualities of his regular production models. At 47, Briggs Swift Cunningham of Palm Beach and Greens Farms, Conn, is an outstanding example of a vanishing breed: the millionaire amateur who devotes his time and money, his enthusiasm and his burning energy to the pursuit of a breakneck sport...
...against the phony anti-Communism that mocks our way of life, flouts our traditions and democratic procedures and our sense of fair play, feeds on the meat of suspicion and grows great on the dissension among Americans which it cynically creates and keeps alive by the mad pursuit of headlines...
...field, are the heart of Dumbarton Oaks. They were given to the University in 1940, with the house and grounds and an endowment sufficient to support the whole study program, by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. The Blisses had worked toward the establishment of a center for the pursuit of Byzantine and Medieval humanities since they acquired the property...
...Pursuit of Heaven. Dodgson was hardly out of Oxford (and back into it again as a lecturer) when he decided that the world was all vanity and vexation of spirit. He believed that God had wisely implanted in man a "yearning" towards the world-to-come. in which place alone would man find an "eternity of happiness . . . the only perfect happiness." Since, however, man could not escape a period of earthly sojourn, it was up to him to make it as much like Heaven as possible...
...place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty interest. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best--that we prefer our second choice to our first...