Word: pursuits
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...untrue or hypothetical can withstand trial, cannot get the best of you, and folly is permitted. In the spirit of imagination, then, of Wonka-esque creative rendering, permit me this brief flight of fancy: Miles and I are seated at the Scrabble board, prepared to engage in this trivial pursuit, and the competitive juices start flowing like it’s the 1997 NCAA Final Four all over again. He draws the better tile and gets to go first, running “magic” off the center square to the right. With a double letter score...
Like many retirees, Jack Rothman, a former professor of public affairs at UCLA, devotes himself to a favorite activity in his senior years. But Rothman's is not one of the customary retirement pastimes--not golf or travel or genealogy or a reading club. No, Rothman's pursuit is a lot more laughs than those, but it's also more difficult and, to some, much scarier. It's stand-up comedy...
...some, it might seem rare that Harvard students could be considered “long shots” in their pursuit of success in any field. Yet that was precisely the term used to title this weekend’s polished debut of a set of five student-written plays at the Loeb Ex. However, in “Long Shot: A Festival of New Plays,” the term seemed to suit the sense of irony that ran throughout the program...
...have made it to Harvard. Most of us tend to take the comfortable routes to the diploma while we are here as well. Sure, a lot of us work hard, but there is a certain security in all of it because we are almost always in pursuit of some well-established objective—the A, the elite extracurricular position, or the prestigious job. We let our filled-to-the-brim schedules direct us from class to meeting to practice to rehearsal, and at every break in between we are connected to our cell phones, our iPods, our laptops.Such busy...
...time to go through our possessions and determine what we need, so it accumulates," Jowsey says. "What Americans do have is enough disposable income to tell somebody, 'Build it for me.'" It is the purchased sort of wellness previously seen with the growth of kitchens and great rooms: the pursuit of happiness built into the furniture...