Word: pursuits
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...gift for describing altered states of mind with absolute lucidity. More important, no one else had his curiosity about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged--and he did--it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest way to explain it," he wrote, "because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." He has gone over now, and we can only hope he finally...
...stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich-quick schemes. "We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure," she writes...
...beginning of the Iraq War, the Bush administration outlined its vision for a “democratic” Middle East. In pursuit of this reform, it declared the formation of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). While this scheme may seem beneficial for the region, it reflects the American (namely Bush’s) deep-rooted goal of exploiting occupied Iraq as a laboratory for democratization in the region. The U.S. has thus put forth a “social engineering project” which reflects its unique vision for a more democratic Middle East. This...
LESS FUNNY, MORE SAD Lynn Cheney, Joe Lieberman, and Tipper Gore, you triumvirate of wisdom, you: the moment of vindication is now. Last weekend, having finally given up her apparently hopeless pursuit of a boyfriend, one female junior needed inspiration. So she turned (where else?) to the O.C. When Marissa Cooper’s luck with men ran dry, she hit the bottle—and then, of course, she hit the boobies...
Invariably, Mau Mau has either been distorted by British survivors or rendered incomprehensible by anthropologists. Elkins’ work directly combats this syndrome and serves as an accessible narrative of Mau Mau, from beginning to end; in pursuit of this goal, she has created one of those rare history books which is immensely readable, even to someone who knows little about British colonial history...