Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born Cambridge don, and such Oxonians as J. L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle decided independently that philosophy was concerned not so much with meaning as with use, and should seek to establish the rules of the various "language games" that men played with ordinary words, describing when a word was used legitimately, and when it was not. About all the various analytic schools had in common was the beliefs that philosophy has nothing to say about the world and that clarity and straight thinking will dissolve most of the classical metaphysical problems...
...would be best if Holy Cross's Lutherans become Episcopalians. The councils of the two churches then drew up a formal merger plan. If all goes well, the Lutherans of Holy Cross plan to be confirmed by Episcopal Bishop Ivol Ira Curtis of Olympia, while Apman will seek ordination as an Episcopal priest...
...King Mieczyslaw I, to be celebrated in Czestochowa next May 3. In a remarkable 17-page invitation, the Polish primates reviewed the bitter record of Polish-German relations, concluded it had been an accident of history. "We grant forgiveness and we ask forgiveness," they said. "Let us seek to forget. No polemics, no more cold war, but the beginning of a dialogue...
Today, fortunately, there is a more organized way for these weekend musicians to seek one another out-the Amateur Chamber Music Players. It was conceived in 1947 by the late Leonard Strauss, an Indianapolis incinerator manufacturer who grew bored playing his violin in his hotel room while on business trips. Today the A.C.M.P. publishes a directory that lists 6,000 amateur musicians in 50 states and 61 countries. By consulting the directory, a member can arrange a living-room concert in virtually any city in the world...
...some there are who wander the world looking for what is like unto themselves," old André Gide once mused. "But there are others, and I am one of these, who seek above all strangeness in things." Poet Elizabeth Bishop is another one of these. For more than 30 years, she has wandered the five continents in search of the intractable, in search of a beauty unbefriending and the poetry of the passing strange. Travel is her profession, and her art is the art of snapshot. Her poems are bright slides that commemorate in gloating color and big-pored detail...