Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McPhee was clearly awed by what he encountered in Alaska ("It is in no way an extension of what I've known before"), and his stories strive not to dictate that response but to duplicate it. Rather than stepping smartly from A to Z, his plots tend to pick up casually with N and then meander back around to M. The apparent informality is a ruse. McPhee consistently works like a reverse pickpocket, slipping facts deftly and painlessly into the folds of his narrative: "There are nearly twice as many people in the District of Columbia as there...
...with his promotional activities for the Nixon book. Price, who maintains that he often had doubts about the professional standards followed by fellow members of the fourth estate during his 15 years as a journalist, offers a variety of proposals to bring institutional change to American media. Reporters should strive for more honesty in stating their degrees of certainty about the "facts" they report in stories; the seven major national media organizations--The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek and the three major television networks--should consciously seek an internal balance of viewpoint among themselves. Most important, Price...
...after all, it is only normal American behavior that now seems profligate. Self-interest in the U.S. is more than the norm; it is the hallowed root of a society that has thrived on the notion that the common good results when individuals strive to get and enjoy as much as they can in a competition umpired only by the marketplace. It is that notion in action that accounts for the stunning fact that the U.S. burns up such a disproportionate 32% share of the entire world's energy (while also turning out, it is fair to remember...
Walpole offers nothing more than those few carrots to help rehabilitate a prisoner. Because the inmates are supposed to strive towards the minimum security programs, the prison offers no programs in the maximum end, where the toughest cases start out. There are, for example, no drug programs; self-confessed addicts in the max end have to go through withdrawal without support, so it isn't surprising that there's heavy drug traffic in Walpole. No skills are taught, except in a program designed, staffed and funded by the American Friends Service Committee in collaboration with the inmates themselves. Inmates...
...Bach Society Orchestra emerges publicly for its first concert of the season this Saturday evening in what looks like one of the most interesting programs offered around Harvard in a while. The program is a fine example of what instrumental groups around Harvard should strive for: concerts of some non-standard fare for a public overfed with Haydn, Mozart and the Brandenburg Concertos...