Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice, destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of the middle ages into the light of the modern era. Nearly every source of creative, artistic and intellectual endeavor in our culture was suppressed...
...highly critical of the American atom bomb project" and that it purports "to represent the shame and anguish of the American population on American preparation for war." The flyer exhorted, "There is no other way but for each firmly to resolve that life must be dedicated to peaceful endeavor...
...orchestration of some Schubert dances-a gesture of homage that was not unusual for him. What passed for classicism in his own day, he wrote in one of the letters quoted by the Moldenhauers, ''emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas I (and Schoenberg and Berg) endeavor to fulfill this meaning-and it remains eternally the same-through our means.'' Webern's meaning may still elude us. But the pure aesthetic integrity of his means continues to beckon us to the heights...
...afternoon's close, the teams had grown indistinguishable, a constant, chilling rain having rendered the field a sodden, gelatinous plain, unfit for any athletic endeavor, except, perhaps, brown-water canoeing...
However, the proposed South African scholarship program is more than just another gesture. No one should take seriously the ideas that black South Africans will be brought to Harvard for a disinterested education. One needs only to look into the other areas of endeavor by Harvard to find the real purpose of the scholarship program. In the September 14 edition of the Harvard Gazette, President Bok refers to Harvard's educational mission in the Third World mentioning the schools of management organized by the Business School in countries such as Marcos's Philippines and the Shah's Iran. (Another...