Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROBERT Wright, now senior editor at The New Republic, appropriately begins his "search for meaning" by taking us on a journey: to the private Caribbean island of multimillionaire computer scientist Edward Fredkin (rumored to be the model for the pessimistic and reclusive computer guru in the movie, War Games...
...best journalists, like the best scientists, turn their lives into acts of discovery. If Three Scientists and Their Gods gives us a hint into the meaning of human life, it is less in the facts it presents, than the investigative process the book both describes and represents. The search itself has given meaning to the lives of the three scientists and indeed, to the life of their biographer: amid their many differences in interests, ideal and temperament, this god of discovery and restless seeking informs all their lives...
...first half of the novel, in fact, centers on Eva's moving from job to job in an upwardly mobile search for a normal employer who will treat her humanely. Initially a slave to the minister of the interior, who requires her to shave him every morning while he sits on his velvet-covered toilet, Eva moves to the home of a Yugoslavian potter. She teaches her the secret of creating images out of Universal Matter--a conglomeration of bread dough, dental cement and magic...
Passing for 120 yards and running for another 78, Foster spearheaded the Crimson to a 28-7 victory over the Huskies. The local media conducted a frantic search to find out who the new Black quarterback...
VIRGINIA Woolf once said, writers always leave the dinner out of dinner parties. Five of us went to Chinatown last week in search of both--both dinner and a party, that...