Word: pursuits
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That said, it's worth recalling the contempt with which the Bush Administration viewed Bill Clinton's failed efforts to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To Bush's team, Clinton's desperate pursuit of a deal--his first-term Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, visited Israel 35 times--was a waste of presidential prestige. It smacked of utopian arrogance, as if Americans thought we could make a messy world behave the way we wanted...
...admire this Cantabrigian combination of activity and leisure. It suggests that pursuing excellence in one area can be balanced with a fulfilling pursuit of mediocrity in others. At Harvard, my friends and I often felt pressured to pursue what we did best at the expense of everything else. My unserious interest in photography was set aside, as was my roommate’s in playing jazz guitar. At Cambridge, finding your personal balance just seems to be given greater weight...
...Indeed, awareness-raising, as an entirely logical and un-ironic pursuit, is ubiquitous in our generation. Back in the 70s, people went awareness-raising because they wanted to shake up their complacent neighbors by doing something radical and “far-out.” Now everyone does it as a matter of course. There are awareness bracelets, awareness pins, awareness weeks, even awareness frying pans. And this long after other trends like the bell-bottomed pant and Richard Nixon have gone the way of the dodo. So what explains awareness’s continuing popularity...
...interviews, Grosslight was asked to make a ten-minute home video illustrating his life and personality. The film opens to a three-minute-long account of the role of Pac-Man in Grosslight’s life. GEEKILY EVER AFTEREventually Grosslight realized that the time commitment of his new pursuit was starting to take a toll on his work as a teaching fellow for History of Science and a course assistant for Math Xa—so he e-mailed his advisers to inform them that he might fall slightly behind in his work. “My adviser sent...
...League sports provide the country’s most ambitious combination of the challenge and thrill of athletic competition and the pursuit of academic and personal growth and accomplishment,” Orleans said in the statement...