Word: pursuits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slashed his left eye after plowing through a glass panel; Charles Russell, 9, who pivoted into a door, died after severing an artery in his knee; Anthony Dipangrazio, 8, who hit a glass door, sliced a jagged gash from eye to chin; Susan Warren, n, who, in pursuit of butterflies, ran through a glass door that had a warning: "This Door Is Closed" pasted on at adult eye level...
...expanding the bounds of freedom; the role of the conservative as retaining the liberal's past achievements. Speaking in Agassiz last Wednesday, she said: "Freedom is a reaping of the good and the large; and a reaching out for the better and larger. It is a happiness; and a pursuit of happiness. To be one, it must be both. The gains of the past must be kept before men and active enjoyment of them must be encouraged so that regression will not easily be mistaken for growth, change or substitution for increase, the similar and different for the better...
...political tradition.) Their absolutist moral convictions (based either on natural law or on revealed religion) lead them--over several different paths--to an extreme individualism. One student, whom Evans quotes, remarks that the concept of morality assumes man to be a free agent capable of improving himself. "Man's pursuit of virtue," the student writes, "and the fulfillment of his duty to the moral order can be realized only in a political and economic condition of freedom." Evans himself suggests that "because the principal end of man is to shape his volition to the will...
House Masters will reconsider their banning door-to-door distribution of leaflets adopted March 7 to "protect students' privacy for the pursuit of knowledge," the threatened to impede the activities of graduate political organizations...
...disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four novels, dozens of stories and sketches ("It's his work - you could smell