Word: strove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speck of Dirt. But in the early 1950s, it appears that Hammarskjöld found faith in God. "Didst Thou give me this inescapable loneliness," he wrote, "so that it would be easier for me to give Thee all?" Inspired by the medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness...
...impelled by a declared charter interest in politics, the Atlantic strove to break out of its parochial mold. It took a sturdy abolitionist position, endorsed Lincoln's election in both 1860 and 1864. It risked the wrath of its readers in 1869 with an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe recounting Lord Byron's incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could...
With dignity, earnestness and immense discretion, four men last week strove for election to a place on one of the nation's most select, secretive and somber ruling bodies: the board of university trustees that is styled by ancient usage as the Yale Corporation. Following tradition, an alumni committee put up an official slate for Yale's 85,000 graduates to choose from: Flour Heir Philip W. Pillsbury, 60; Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, 42, of New York; and George B. Young, 51, executive vice president of Chicago's Field Enterprises Inc. Competing with them was William...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy and pacifism; and against religion, mysticism and even secularist rationalism and pragmatism. He demanded unshakable conviction, utter indifference to public opinion, unflagging readiness for sacrifice...