Word: strives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most gurus teach one or another form of yoga (the Sanskrit word means a yoking, or union), practical methods by which the student can strive to unite with Brahman. The discipline that concentrates on psychophysical exercises to purify and strengthen the entire body is called hatha-yoga. Raja-yoga employs meditative exercises to focus the mind, and bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion...
...what happened in those years--on the rise of overpowering soloists like Louis Armstrong, the big-city, big-band style of Duke Ellington, the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker, even the European heritage brought in more and more by the Modern Jazz Quartet--that, while young musicians can strive toward a self-consciously primitive jazz style, they cannot duplicate the attitude and style of the working-class men who, in the first quarter of this century, played "jass" on weekends and drove trucks or laid bricks during the week...
...aspiring journalists who continue to work from day to day on The Crimson, perhaps the greatest source of inspiration is former Crimson editors who have won journalism's highest award, the Pulitzer Prize. It is an the Pulitzer Prizes that journalists see recognition of the skills they so painstakingly strive to master: accurate reporting, attention to detail, and a healthy advocacy of right against wrong...
...grows emphatic. "But it's a broader question. American blacks have been cheated: society owes them recognition, owes it to them to ameliorate conditions, enlarge their opportunities for fulfillment on personal and social levels. It's wrong to let this became a parochial question, limited to literature. We must strive to make the world decent, You can't live for yourself and produce a healthy society...
...strive...