Word: striven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What extraordinary vehicles destiny selects to accomplish its design. This man, so lonely in his hour of triumph, so ungenerous in some of his motivations, had navigated our nation through one of the most anguishing periods in its history. He had striven for a revolution in American foreign policy so that it would overcome the disastrous oscillations between overcommitment and isolation. Despised by the Establishment, ambiguous in his human perceptions, he had yet held fast, determined to prove that the strongest free country had no right to abdicate. What would have happened had the Establishment about which...
Prospero, so often described as omniscient, refers to Caliban as a creature "on whose nature nurture can never stick." But he is quite wrong. In the dozen years Prospero and his daughter have lived on the island, Caliban has striven to better himself and has learned how to speak well. In the course of the play he learns valuable lessons and at the end asserts, "I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace...
Mobil has been in South Africa for 80 years, but it has hired most of its 1,326 nonwhite employees (out of a total of 2,961) during the past eight. It has also striven to train and promote nonwhites. Now most of the supervisory jobs at the Mobil refineries in Cape Town and Durban are held by nonwhites...
...With all he had striven for smashed in a single afternoon, he had an overwhelming sense of the fragility and contingency of life. He had never taken plans very seriously in the past. He could not believe in them at all now. 'Who knows if we will be here next week?' If things were worth doing, they were not to be deferred to the precarious future: so he would protect his family, his friendships, his reading from the exactions of public affairs. At the same time he knew he was a child of fortune as well...
...away from these works you may feel that the look of Joan Miro's art has radically changed from his early work. Yet, without becoming stale, the motives behind it are still somewhat the same. As Miro wrote in 1939, describing his early struggles for recognition, he has constantly striven, whatever medium he uses, "To try and go further than easel painting... to try to go as far as possible and through painting to get closer to the people who are never out of my mind...