Word: purports
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...Being Happy in an Unhappy World to The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness, from the Buddhist Eight Steps to Happiness to I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (by Linda Richman, Mike Myers' mother-in-law), hundreds of books purport to help you feel a bit better. They speak to a primal yearning in the species. "Human beings want to have meaning," says Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania psychologist and director of the Positive Psychology Network. "They want not to wake up in the morning with a gnawing realization that...
...alas, few jobs are more suited to a Harvard student’s skill set upon graduation. Thanks to classes with long reading lists and no sourcebooks, the photocopying prowess of Harvard grads is stunning, rivaled only by their light-speed typing and gourmet coffee preparation technique. Harvard may purport to be training future leaders, but in practice, students have to log long hours with the Lamont photocopiers instead of being able to ponder great theoretical works...
Zinn compared the war on terror to other wars in the past—the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War and the Vietnam War—that “purport to be one thing but are really something else.” Instead of being a war on terror, Zinn said the current war is motivated by American political, economic and psychological “expansionism...
...simple sketch pieces, will eventually take the form of a coloring book for elementary school children. Its list of contributing artists, though, reads like a veritable who's who of the contemporary American art scene, including names like Sol Lewit, Jill Anderson, Carl Andre and Lawrence Weiner. The purport of the project, sponsored by Pilot Programs 217, Brooklyn, artkrush.com, and Clifford Smith, is to "introduce young to ideas and images in contemporary art." This, though, only begs the question: Can art, especially contemporary art, whose bent is highly intellectual and who's philosophical underpinnings are still being forged, be taught...
...entirely sure whom the Harvard College Democrats purport to represent these days, but it’s not Democrats, and most certainly not the nation so many of its members aspire to govern...