Word: introspective
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This is a season to savor for its many gifts. We have license to run and hide, hold the mail, introspect; but there is something about this year that calls us to do the opposite. If we all go on a retreat, merely peeking at the pageants of the Olympics, the party conventions, it will be with the knowledge of what awaits us when we get back. We'll need to have recharged because we are living history now, making historic choices. It is not the crisp midwinter, when we have to be serious. But this summer, maybe we should...
Harris encouraged the students in the audience to introspect on what they can do to improve their world...
...orientation where the students don't even pretend to be intellectuals. They don't allude to Plato or Shakespeare, but they do like to get involved in the analysis of managerial problems. They are training to become professionals and their focus is on careers. They are not here to introspect but to improve managerial skills. Many have families to support; so in a sense, school is their livelihood. Motivated and disciplined, they study hard against the heavy workload which requires participation in four hours of classes and upwards of six hours of study each day. Daily work is more important...
...them seek a better life, and egotism, to supply the fuel that keeps them going when they don't find it." He has a huge vocabulary, which sometimes slices into the rough. "Don't misconcept this," he will say, or "That guy is a man of great introspect." But his favorite adjective is "beautiful," his favorite noun is "pal," and his favorite phrase is "beautiful, pal, beautiful...
...readers who have followed Vardis Fisher to this fourth and final volume of his autobiographical novel, his hero's complete candor in showing himself at times a stubborn fool, a dreary bore, a nearly crazy introspect, will end by impressing them with his struggle for honesty. In the earlier books his wrestling to be free from his Nessus' shirt was more painful to watch than not. Now that he has got it mostly off, the scarified body shows sturdy if not beautiful...