Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inevitably, though, the ambitions of some will be thwarted. It can only be hoped that Bush does not suffer the same fate as one of his predecessors, James A. Garfield. He was shot by a disappointed office-seeker soon after his inauguration...
...there is still an Art that transcends sexual foibles and the quirks of personality, then Huffington's book--and her approach to the subject--is a failure. Her critique of Picasso the publicity seeker and sadist makes no contribution to our understanding of the artist at work and very little to our understanding of the artist at play...
...this point the eager ice appreciator must withdraw slightly from the artistic symbosis he doubtless has acheived. The purpose of the instailation, after all, is to challenge the perceptions, not to litter the Quad with frozen corpses. That would be neither artistic nor santitary. It is time for the seeker after art and truth to return to the academic paradise that is Harvard, to a warmer and less esoteric world...
...young career seeker of either sex, money is a draw. Salaries can run + from $20,000 to $35,000 a year, plus generous tips. Providing such routine services as travel arrangements, sight-seeing tours, secretaries, translators and after-hours tailors and florists brings in respectable gratuities. Prestidigitation -- securing tickets to a sold-out play-off game or making last-minute reservations at the hottest restaurant -- can earn a hefty $100. Gifts from satisfied guests are not uncommon. "I never have to do any Christmas shopping," says Bettye Bradley, 61, of the Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have...
...left the podium to a standing ovation. Although much can be inferred about their methods from section tapes and transcripts of B.S.O.H. meetings, until recently little was known about the actual motivation behind this peculiar lifestyle. It was not until the invention of the "Pulier Motivation Seeker" that extensive information could be accurately compiled...