Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the Freudian influence of their parents and their pasts, they strive towards careers, and in most cases, marriages. Through their four years at Harvard, they change little. "Our data impressed us with the ties our subjects had to the past," King writes...
...presents himself as hopelessly mendacious, God's own holy spoiled brat. Nobody expresses that blind human appetite for having everything at the same time as well as Kafka: "I strive to know the entire human and animal community, to recognize their fundamental preferences, desires, and moral ideals, to reduce them to simple rules, and as quickly as possible to adopt these rules so as to be pleasing to everyone ... to become so pleasing that in the end I might openly act out my inherent baseness before the eyes of the world without forfeiting its love-the only sinner...
...beacon of hope for the rest of Latin America has been extinguished. For the moment, we must try to pressure the U.S. government to stop the killing. For the future, we must hope that somehow the Left can regroup and that socialism will return to Chile. And we must strive to insure that in the future the American government does not kill any more dreams...
...totally different though no less quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, premeasured, superclean production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought. In the $8 billion-a year fast-food industry, McDonald's is only one of dozens of chains that strive for uniformity in menu and service. But none has ever surpassed McDonald's in automating the ancient art of cooking and serving food...
...casualness is deceptive in such a disciplined musician. Too many conductors today strive for originality but end up either with mere visceral excitement or drab sterility. Levine succeeds by being disarmingly strict regarding what the score says in black and white and delightfully lyrical, like Orpheus, among the gray shades of interpretation...