Word: strived
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Brancusi was after a healing wholeness. He didn't care about "truth to material," but he did strive to make the action of the hand and the movement of thought one. He believed that every aspect of sculpture--whether rough, like his urgently hewn oak and walnut carvings, or exquisitely nuanced, like his marble head or bird forms, polished to the point where light and substantial weight become mysteriously the same--needed to be manual before it could be whole...
...endorsed candidates signed the "CCA pledge of mutuality," in which they pledge to "strive to act in unison in all actions and decisions regarding the selection of mayor, vice-mayor...
...possibly strive to be worthy of an academic legacy of which we are almost completely ignorant? How should we be expected to under stand and appreciate our place in the history of this institution, and, hence, of this country, if we are close to oblivious of that history? In short, to those who go for the "all or nothing" approach and find themselves believing that "nothing" in this situation is better than "all," I advocate an exception. Such a course as I am proposing would have a unique function on our campus, one that should not be denied...
Indeed we continually strive to emulate the remarkable leadership embodied in the life of President Kennedy. We are daily presented with crises around the world in which we as a community are often powerless to intervene directly. The recent assassination of one of Israel's greatest leaders, Yitzhak Rabin, has been one such case. President Kennedy and Prime Minister Rabin both represent the courageous martyrs of our times who remind us of the responsible role we must actively play on our campus, in the country and in the world community...
Zahedi's inability to take control of his belligerent little brother illustrates another problem inherent in this movie. Zahedi purports to let God direct his film, but when he does strive to control a situation, he cannot. His insecurity as a person and a director hampers him from asserting his rights as the co-director) (God is billed as the other co-director) and member of this family...