Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time--they're really quite similar, you see, but sometimes people don't seem to understand that. Actually Leder's goals as a priest and as a painter are practically identical, and in his own mind, at least, he has it all worked out quite well. "I strive," he says, "for communication with the transcendant." His gaze drifts out past his easel again, over the rooftops to the hills of Watertown. "I really believe that...
Psychiatrists are also trained to give their patients plenty of advance notice of their departure. "If a patient falls apart when his doctor is away, the physician is not practicing psychiatry. He is instead a babysitter," says Dr. Jules Masserman of Chicago. "We strive to make patients self-sufficient." Some doctors arrange to have their practices covered or leave their phone numbers for emergencies. "Woody Allen is wrong," says Boston's Dr. Henry Friedman. "Everyone doesn't just depart and leave a group of neurotics marching around the city...
...finally, there is an almost mystical quality that suffuses his relationship to music. Through it, Chen has found moments of seemingly transcendent illumination. "It's like when you are trying to focus a camera. So you strive to have that moment again, but you can't make it every time...
...three powerful critics named Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg. These Svengalis have dictated what shall be painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because Wolfe did not invent philistinism...
Familiar Pleas. Okun argues that the U.S. can do much to create a more equitable economy while leaving the market free. Some of his ideas are familiar pleas of liberal reformers: he would have the Government strive to improve opportunities for the poor through more job-training programs and make certain that all low-income families receive food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid. "The cliché should at least be validated," he says. "The market should not be allowed to legislate life and death...