Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divided the soul into reason, passion and appetite, people have struggled to explain how to become disciples of themselves; they have groped to understand how to use reason--the most venerable of our faculties--to tame our less auspicious features. This relationship is, of course, the answer to the singular question which a humane education should answer: How should I live...
...need multiple perspectives...not just one singular perspective of someone who has gone through and gotten that Ph.D and that master's and taught for 10 years and achieved a certain level of prominence in the academic community...
...have become routine for Woods. Those who stayed with Palmer witnessed something far more singular. His round came just nine weeks after he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and Arnie's brush with mortality served to remind people of his immortality. As he walked up the 18th fairway, the eyes in the gallery were as misty, and the applause as thunderous, as the weather in Orlando, Florida, last week. "I felt wonderful," said Palmer. "I feel very lucky just to be out there playing. That's the important thing about it. I even made [38-year-old playing partner] Fulton...
...beautiful people, and the struggle to transform herself from "doormat" to corporate mogul after her husband's suicide, Graham has mapped the heartache of being flawed and human and female. With the help of Gloria Steinem she came to see that the thousand small slights she endured were not singular to her but common to her gender. When she set out to write, "I didn't think about being honest or revealing," she says. "I did 250 interviews of classmates and family and associates and found all the letters and wrote it down on a yellow pad as accurately...
...FLOOD, 59, doughty former St. Louis Cardinal centerfielder; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Flood defied baseball's hallowed reserve system in 1969 by refusing to be traded from St. Louis, and later, in a case that went to the Supreme Court, sued for antitrust violation. He lost, but his singular challenge paved the way for the 1975 agreement permitting players to become free agents...