Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from buying into their mindset. The fact is that being on the council is kind of like being inside the Beltway: things people outside consider petty (say, impeachment) seem, to those within, like the most essential matters in the world. When I was on the council, we all thought what we were doing was terribly important. Yet we failed to see that all around us our efforts were being ignored or scoffed at. Although things have gotten better since then--internal e-mail is way down, and meetings are shorter--too many council members still spend more time haggling over...
Stoic philosophy, which dominated moral thought in the Roman Empire, stressed that one should not become emotionally attached to the things of the world, whether they be wealth, honor or, or even one's own children...
...hard to understand exactly how romantic love came to be elevated to the position of privilege it now occupies in Western thought. It might have its roots in the medieval tradition of courtly love, which originated in southern France in the eleventh century largely as a reaction to the drabness and poverty of life at the time and to the oppressive rigidity of the feudal system. It eventually would become a justification for sexual activity outside the normative channels of marriage (see, for instance, the story of Tristan and Isolde or of Lancelot and Guinevere), something that might have motivated...
...heard great things about this Cold War class and was into it. Then I heard the sound of plastic ruffling to my right. "That's cool," I thought. "Someone's brought a snack. How efficient...
...what students want' would tend to focus on short-term goals, and we constantly have to think about the long--indeed the very long--term goals," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "The only reason Harvard has been around for 360 years is that each generation has thought about the needs of future generations, not just about...