| 单词 | striver |
| 例句 | As they flourished, evangelical entrepreneurs and strivers built a distinctly evangelical business culture of prayer meetings, self-help books, and business associations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was himself a striver, and he sought to instill that ethos in the school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As we walked up the steps into the schoolhouse, Mr. Travis said, “Good morning, scholars, strivers, and questers for a better future! Are you ready to learn, are you ready to grow?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has sheltered generations of strivers and makers. What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z But she can also be the one to provide the song that lends gravity to a country striver’s album, like “Unsaid,” a regretful elegy sung by Sunny Sweeney. Caitlyn Smith, a Hitmaking Nashville Songwriter, Sings Her Own on ‘Starfire’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Who better to model his power suit-wearing striver on than the embodiment of 1980s greed and callousness? Pedro Pascal dons different armor for ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He’s 30, single, a striver; she’s 37, married, the mother of a teenage son. Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z This being the Hamptons, the amateurs were mostly successful young strivers from the worlds of finance, business and technology. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z As if to disarm that preconception, the album opens with a taut, harmonically unsettled arrangement of “On Broadway,” the striver’s anthem still synonymous with its greatest steward, George Benson. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z Garfield’s striver croons, convinced that his impending 30th birthday — the time bomb in the title — will mark his decline from future superstar to “waiter with a hobby.” ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Review: A Bohemian’s Rhapsodies 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z For a few years his love and his muse was a male-to-female striver named Rachel. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The baron is about to marry Sophie, the young daughter of Faninal, an ambitious striver who has made a fortune selling arms. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z These include the oldest writings of the ancient era, the runaway best sellers of the Renaissance, and the must-reads of American colonists, revolutionaries, and early twentieth-century strivers with an eye for elegance and civilized living. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z She considers spirituality and practicality, and she recognizes the sweat and aspiration of immigrant strivers. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s the opening song on “Good Things” but more important, the theme song to the HBO series “How to Make It in America,” about a certain stripe of post-rap downtown New York striver. Music Review: The Old-School Style, Unafraid to Be Imperfect 2010-11-19T22:45:00Z The strivers of SUR got later starts than your average Housewife and then took their time growing up. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z It takes a sure hand to craft a series that blends a pair of young musical strivers from a downtrodden urban neighborhood — while keeping the series touching, relatable and funny. 'Black Mirror,' 'This Is Us,' 'Westworld' among year's best 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The fizzy “Gallery Girls” doesn’t take a moral stand, rightly pitting strivers of all sorts in the same ring and letting the bodies fall where they may. Television Review: ‘Gallery Girls’ Follows the New York Art World on Bravo 2012-08-12T21:35:06Z Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Chandler were intrigued, enchanted and often unromantic about this town, its egos and insecurities, its strivers and connivers. Who is next? High anxiety in Hollywood over sex-abuse scandals 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z A lavish and lovely musical romance, it is set in a Los Angeles populated by good-looking creative strivers. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z On both sides of that economic fence are young strivers with compelling stories and dreams. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Sitting alone in a corner office is one particular striver who, toiling over financial charts and numbers and spreadsheets, works himself literally to death. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He may also put you in mind of Chuck Ramkissoon, the Trinidadian striver in Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland,” who longs to build a world-class cricket stadium. With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Ebert said he worries his adopted home will be pegged as “Brooklyn south” and become overrun by bright-eyed strivers looking for a new source of authenticity to co-opt. Cultured Traveler : Experiencing New Orleans With Fresh Eyes and Ears 2014-03-06T17:00:58Z Originally imagined — and, as evidenced by a successful Kickstarter campaign, quite literally pitched — as a documentary about the changing face of America’s political strivers, the inspiring film inevitably changed significantly along the way. "Knock Down the House" review: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears in emotional, energetic doc 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z We meet “trailer trash” characters with thick southern accents and tacky wardrobes, and the wealthy white collar strivers who are just as seedy and ridiculous under their fake veneer of elegance. Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix's controversial new comedy? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Manohla Dargis’s take: “It’s a smart, gutsy, wholly unexpected movie that, at center, is an old-fashioned story about an ambitious striver overcoming the odds to become another American success story,” the critic wrote. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Maybe Daniels, an authentic red-state striver, is the x to the President’s -x; but the equations keep morphing, the coefficients melting. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “But he presents himself, consciously or not, as a classic Asian-American striver, even if he tends to dress like a gangster on a spa retreat.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Huang’s World’ and ‘Reg’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Evan Osnos appears to be almost as entrepreneurial, intrepid and creative as the strivers whose linked portraits underpin his book “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China.” ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z There are certain tropes: Vilde is the naive, socially awkward striver, for example, but mostly the show’s characters are realistically flawed young people dealing with growing up. Skam: the hit Norwegian teen show headed for a US remake 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The literary aspirations that animate Jacobs-Jenkins’s young strivers, ambitions that in Act 1 seem amusing and benign, become twisted, even sick, in Act 2. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z A variation on pitting pseudo-socialites against strivers, the series follows seven gallerinas who’d do almost anything to break into the city’s art world — as long as they don’t have to crack their ennui. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z Yet he is typically a striver, someone who makes you like him by force of ambition. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z But it is distinguished by a strong sense of place, by broken strivers struggling in often hostile environments. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The stakes, which somehow involve the fate of a Hollywood studio as well as the lives of motley strivers and schemers, seem trivial. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z I guess that’s just to say I identify more with the striver, still. Greta Gerwig on making ‘Little Women’ ‘at the speed of life’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z What true creative striver does not at some point feel the pain of futility in this capriciously rewarding world? Art in Review: ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN: ?The Estate of Rochelle F.? 2011-04-14T20:23:52Z The photographer is just one more anxious striver on the street. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “It matches nothing and goes with everything,” added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies. Countdown to Fashion Week: At Veronica Beard, Meeting in the Middle 2013-08-07T20:40:05Z The book doubles as a biography of the ruthless striver Adolph "Creepy" Zukor, an orphaned Hungarian immigrant with a 10th-grade education who developed a handful of penny arcades into the empire of Paramount Pictures. How Hollywood scandal was born 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z To the creative strivers who still flock here, the answer may be self-evident. ArtsBeat: New York, Cultural Capital of the World? Discuss 2012-05-08T18:40:39Z I was a self-absorbed striver reaching for another brass ring, and I used words as the best way to get there. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z Over the last five years, Ms. Minaj the pop striver has often gotten in the way of Ms. Minaj the fearsome rapper. Review: Nicki Minaj’s ‘The Pinkprint’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In these pages, she is a skittish striver, more neurotic bundle than conquering guitar god. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In this view, the strivers coursing through the capital’s halls of power represent the entire population; luxury, status and predictability rule in the kitchen, and the best meal to be had is a dry-aged steak. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a smart, gutsy, wholly unexpected movie that, at center, is an old-fashioned story about an ambitious striver overcoming the odds to become another American success story. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Or maybe it’s just pretension, an instance of long-simmering Anglophilia among the American striver classes bubbling over into full-fledged imitation — or in the view of British observers, parody. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z Unger plays up the “tortoise-and-hare” caricature of the contest of Matisse and Picasso, “the plodding striver against the facile genius, the introvert against the extroverted gadfly.” How Picasso Became Picasso 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The novel, which follows a young social striver jockeying for status on the Upper East Side, was also acquired for film by Fox 2000 Pictures. Season of Big Book Advances Includes a Reporter 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z And they are sharing personal narratives about immigrants — the strivers who become America’s entrepreneurs and idealists, revolutionaries and stalwarts. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It's remarkable to witness how far Peggy has come from her days as a naive striver. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z That question arises during the course of Julia Glass’s latest novel, “A House Among the Trees,” in which a broad cross-sampling of artists, eccentrics and strivers all come knocking at our door, demanding our attention. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s easy to think of hip-hop as a collection of superstars and strivers, full of faces angling to be seen. Review: ‘The Breaks’ Captures Hip-Hop in the ’90s, Music and All 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Our “two-body problem” was back with a vengeance, but now, instead of being endearingly geeky strivers joined at the hip, we were one of those freakish museum curios floating in a jar. Modern Love: Is the Husband Going to be the Problem? 2010-08-12T23:00:00Z His protagonist in “A Cool Million,” Lemuel Pitkin, is an innocent, energetic striver, tasked with saving his mother’s house from foreclosure. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Bob is a quintessential striver who runs what aspires to be a tasty and innovative burger joint. ‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ Review: A Breezy, Engaging Summer Refreshment 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The territory in Jenny Hollowell’s first novel is familiar: Hollywood strivers just outside the caress of the spotlight. Novles by Glenn Beck, Stephen McCauley and Others 2010-06-16T22:42:00Z That was the message that “Girls” sent out to the strivers, navel-gazers and exhibitionists of the world, who suddenly saw a route from the writers’ group or the improv troupe onto the screen. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In the end they stomp-danced their way off the public stage and returned to join the roiling millions of New York strivers who live and die without ever creating a headline. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z And he has a perfect match in Bertha, a brazen striver whose favorite six words consist of two phrases: "Until I say" and "When I say." "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z With names like Taiwan, Patience and Labisha, they are his alter egos, portraying a child of rural Florida or an anxious art-world striver of New York. The Art of Being a Character 2011-08-03T20:22:35Z You will encounter his ilk — losers, strivers, hucksters and dreamers — in the novels of Saul Bellow and the stories of Franz Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It individualized Ms. Faith, making her something more than the pop striver she happily admits she is. Music Review: Paloma Faith at Joe’s Pub 2012-09-12T22:06:19Z His performance, as a strategic striver, a jealous rival and a doting father, is magnetic. A ‘Hamilton’ Star’s Story: How Leslie Odom Jr. Became Aaron Burr, Sir 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “Teeth Dreams” expands Mr. Finn’s roster of misfits and uncertain strivers. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z Set circa 1980, “The Life” is also about lovers and strivers doing their best to survive a harsh and unforgiving city. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z But such objections will be drowned out by the vibrancy of a novel whose Whitmanesque arms embrace an entire city of lovers and strivers, saints and killers. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In “Ballo,” Verdi juxtaposed chilling dramatic episodes, focused on the plot among conspirators to assassinate the king, with oddly lighter scenes depicting the superficial strivers at court. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Yet even with weakened portfolios, many people of means remain willing to answer the call because a spot on a cultural board is among the most coveted prizes in a city of strivers and mega-achievers. To Join the Met?s Board, Have a Checkbook Handy 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z At the other end, a new generation of strivers applies to become Parisian. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Patterns A corporate striver faces personal and professional challenges in James Reach's stage adaptation of the Rod Serling teleplay. L.A. theater openings, July 19-26: 'El Grande Circus de Coca-Cola' and more 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “You feel New York here,” he said of the neighborhood’s mélange of immigrants, bohemians and strivers. French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z Mr. Glover, last year’s winner for lead actor in a comedy, was nominated again for his role as a disillusioned striver in “Atlanta.” Netflix Topples HBO in Emmy Nominations 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Both books share the stories of adolescents in Hawaii destined to enter national politics by way of Illinois, each with one foreign-born parent; both authors were strivers whose fathers were absent, actually or symbolically. Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z She is a shopaholic striver with a mountain of credit-card debt, a profligate clotheshorse who, the viewer assumes, cares more about materialist trends than timeless art. Fran Drescher in “The Nanny” Is the Fashion Look This Fall 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Even now, most women on network comedies are plucky strivers, including the Brooklyn diner waitresses of “2 Broke Girls.” Television Review: ‘Broad City’ Brings a Female Twist to Failure 2014-01-21T21:57:40Z So frequently, it is he and his collaborators who are the struggling strivers. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z And Matt's the striver, whose misplaced ambition means he's always trying to better himself and failing. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z There's a power trip aspect to its glimpse inside the world of superpowerful capitalists -- a striver's awe of entitlement. The Justice League of Wall Street 2011-05-23T19:24:00Z Maybe it’s the striver in me that connects with the striver in her. ‘Homeland’ Recap: Season 5, Episode 8, ‘All About Allison’ 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z They are still swimming in a teeming pool of strivers and seekers. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the first federal public housing projects for black people, Liberty Square had indoor plumbing and electricity — a rarity — and attracted middle-class strivers who had been hemmed into substandard segregated neighborhoods. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Purely in terms of star power, the Brucennial puts the 2010 Whitney show in the shade, making its roster look like a list of strivers still outside the blue-chip loop. Art Review | Brucennial 2010: Who Needs the Whitney? They Have Their Own Show 2010-02-25T22:26:00Z In reality, these opportunities are often scarce and rigged to benefit the wealthy and powerful far more than they do the upward strivers at the bottom of the global economic hierarchy. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z This impeachment story finds Fox on the side of the sitting president, and far from the striver it used to be. Inside Fox News: How the impeachment fight is opening fresh divisions in the newsroom 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z On the reality-TV competition “Nashville Star,” she was a striver; then, on her first two major label albums, she was a dissenter, upending norms with verve and backbone. Review: Miranda Lambert Sings of What Comes After the Heartbreak 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Yet the specifics vary from striver to striver. SXSW 2015: Snoop Dogg, Sam Hunt aim to stand out in a crowded music field 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Chazelle won best director at the Oscars this year for “La La Land,” a musical about artistic strivers in Los Angeles, and was nominated for best adapted screenplay for the conservatory drama “Whiplash.” Damien Chazelle Is Producing a Musical Series for Netflix 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The film takes time to showcase the range of experience within this stratified world, giving Bok-soon colleagues ranging from C-ranked Hee-sung to the strivers making a living at smaller agencies and languishing through "unemployment." Netflix's "Kill Boksoon" slays with a sharp, stylish take on an assassin balancing work & parenting 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In “The Get Down,” he takes that film’s strivers, spitfires and gang bangers, moves them a few miles north and repurposes them as rappers, drug dealers and disco queens. ‘The Get Down’ Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z But this comic-melancholy hangout is most worth watching for its generous portraits of the strivers and losers at and around a fraternal lodge in down-and-out Southern California. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Lucien deserves most of his comeuppances, but he remains sympathetic because Voisin captures his insouciance as a striver and social climber. "Lost Illusions" is a sumptuous period piece on the allure of fame, followers and fake news 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z It was also his personality as a family man, earnest striver and all-around nice guy. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship, “Hunter Gatherer” joins two luckless strivers on a picaresque journey to nowhere. Review: ‘Hunter Gatherer’ Profiles Two Men Living on the Margins 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The Kennedys A ruthless, tyrannical striver grasps for power, promoting his sons to establish his rule and cement his legacy. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z For many of these strivers, the chance to swap insider intelligence and bask in camaraderie was, after all, the point. The Cult of the Line: It’s Not About the Merch 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z More interestingly for a royal, he is also, as Smith puts it, an “intellectual striver.” A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Among Washington strivers, lofty aspirations often crash into ugly, maddening realities. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z But her parents also were strivers, moving their six children from Mississippi to Atlanta, where her mother and father studied for the seminary. Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor’s race. But her star is rising. 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Many were strivers in creative fields, and Ms. Arbus caught them early on. Art In Review: Amy Arbus: ‘On the Street 1980-1990’ 2014-03-21T00:02:22Z But while both writers charted the lives of the mid-20th-century US middle class, Cheever chronicled those in the upper realms while Yates focused on sad strivers who evolved into losers. Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z In their everyday New Orleans lives, Blink and his crew are hopeful strivers; after Hurricane Katrina hits, they’re in desperate straits. ‘Cut Throat City’ Review: Desperate Straits in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He argues that Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals, the ultimate hustler in a nation built by hustlers and strivers. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z They are musicians and singers, strivers and dreamers. ‘New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Of course, Lauren himself was not, originally, one of the powerful but an outsider and a striver, which makes his story all the more American. Ralph Lauren’s American Dreams 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z King’s novel is help of a sort, an unmistakable broadside against fiction’s love affair with macho strivers, even — or especially — when layers of lyricism and tenderness coat their machismo. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z At a time of dizzying changes, Mr. Moynihan said he was not much of a hustler or a striver regarding his career. Bobby Moynihan on His New Life After ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z But you don’t get the feeling that the strivers will prevail, either. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z About half of the 100 could be called Hollywood product; but that town is its own United Nations, a magnet for refugees from Hitler and strivers of every stripe. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z In many small towns, belonging to the Klan was a means of career advancement for political strivers — among them Hugo Black and, apparently, Harry Truman. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z I attended a university in Los Angeles full of Hispanic valedictorians and other strivers. Brown like “them” 2012-07-06T20:25:00Z This romantically swoony vision of the beloved seems like a reverie from a bohemian fantasy, the kind once pursued by hungry young strivers in Paris and the old Greenwich Village. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Beatty is a striver, a little like brilliant weirdo Howard Hughes, the subject of Rules Don’t Apply, his first film as director in nearly 20 years. Review: Rules Don't Apply Rambles, But Beatty as Howard Hughes Is Still Something to See 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Lapine cast this production mostly with actors in their 30s, who can be plausible as young strivers or as broken souls approaching middle age. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z It takes an upper-middle-class striver like Matthew Macfadyen’s smiling, boneless Tom to derive any pleasure from the accouterments. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Its opening credits, depicting the arteries of New York City from above, feels appropriate for a show that uses an entire city of strivers and oppressed as its canvas. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet even while harbouring these seditious thoughts, the striver in him knew that his first aim must be to rise in the system he dreamed of liberating. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z He came to be pegged as a flashy try-hard among easygoing naturals, the show-biz striver among artisans who just wanted to make beautiful noise. Robbie Robertson Offers His Story of the Band 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z No one here, however, is likely to topple the current regime of art, and in that respect these artists stand for the majority of contemporary strivers. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z There’s the whole ecosystem of strugglers, strivers and sinners that keep the county running, from its hookers’ trailers to its revival tents. TV Tonight: Justified Brings It All Back Home 2013-01-08T13:00:42Z He is a savage marauder, after all, and she a ruthless striver — both claimed power through shocking acts of violence. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 3: The Queen’s Justice 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z A striver who had worked hard to leave his rough beginnings behind through identification with a cultural elite, Cole found Jacksonian America: competitive, commercial and uncivil, a land of uncontrolled and destructive appetites. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Plus the hangers-on, the strivers, the image makers and the sellouts, all comprising what Mr. Leibovich calls “a political herd that never dies or gets older, only jowlier, richer and more heavily made-up.” Books of The Times: ‘This Town,’ by Mark Leibovich, skewers Washington’s insiders. 2013-07-07T21:54:32Z Herschel is neither a sentimental schlemiel nor a twinkly old-world grandpa, but rather an impatient, sometimes intolerant striver with a violent streak. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Their fellow strivers — which is to say, criminals, opportunists and shortcut seekers — are explicitly buoyed by versions of the American gospel of self-improvement. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z She described herself as a striver from a “very poor” family, like Sookhee, and said she worked odd jobs to pay her way through college, including a stint at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Seoul. Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z His guests often join him as fellow strivers. Burna Boy Faces Success and Second Thoughts on ‘Love, Damini’ 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The goal is to scrub the symbolism off Brown and restore him to humanity: a 24-year-old striver, husband and father who loathes being singled out as a special case. ‘Devotion’ Review: An Airman in Reflection 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The strivers and other aspirants are featured, too, as are those who have no choice but to hustle. New York Art Guide: How to Navigate Museums This Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z As a striver like feisty Erin Brockovich, she is guaranteed to win the audience over, right? Won't Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich 2012-09-27T18:01:29Z Like the city itself, the book sprawls unapologetically, teeming with punks, suits, cops, junkies, hacks, strivers, losers and artists. Hot town 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But, also like the movie, it is a tribute to New York City as a city of seekers and strivers. ‘New York, New York,’ a Film-Inspired Homage, Plans Broadway Bow 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z In classic striver mode, Robert yearns to become what he isn’t yet, in this case a great cartoonist in the vein of Robert Crumb and his underground comix brethren. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But sordid dream factories still produce dreams, and “Miss Lovely”has sympathy for the strivers it shows, men and women trapped in the gutter but compulsively and vainly reaching for the stars. The Week Ahead: Oct. 21 — 28 2012-10-21T07:30:05Z But it also sounds a bit like a nod to Louis Vuitton and its “Louis bag” ubiquitous among strivers. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Soon enough, the hungry strivers metamorphose into hot properties who, after a frenzied wallow in fame, face assorted truths along with career-defining forks in the road. Review: In ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ Upstarts Who Became the Establishment 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Perrotta, who has seen all of his novels get at least optioned for adaptation, has been moving in this direction since “Election,” in which he introduced the now-archetypal striver Tracy Flick. Making ‘Mrs. Fletcher’: Arguing. Futzing. Spanking. Agreeing. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Her favorite subjects were strivers and oddballs, the dispossessed and the people who dared to be delighted in the face of life’s struggles. Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for Los Angeles Times, dies 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z His is a familiar story, a modern iteration of the starry-eyed striver headed west with a dollar and a dream. From a one-way flight to sleeping in a parking lot: Diary of a California dream gone sour 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s easy to skewer empty strivers, and it definitely brings satisfaction to readers to see them get their comeuppance. In a dark satirical novel, a callow Brooklyn tech bro atones by ... going vegan? 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z And “Between Two Fires,” by Joshua Yaffa, looks at how a middle tier of strivers navigates Putin’s Russia, where the government can offer benefits and threaten punishments as it requires. In a Mutiny or Coup, the Scramble to Persuade and Pick a Side Is Critical 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Of course readers know how the story will end, but the debut novelist Chau brings in the modern concerns of immigrant strivers as well as a wholly fresh twist that will delight Janeites and others. 10 books to add to your reading list this July 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z This number increases among Black and brown strivers in the professional and managerial classes because they work in majority-white spaces. Who is afraid of Ralph Yarl? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z A scrapper, fighter, hustler and striver, Inez — portrayed by Taylor in a fierce, career-defining turn — will not back down when it comes to the son she insists on fighting for. Review | ‘A Thousand and One’: A film worth not just seeing — but celebrating 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Aretha is one of several recent literary avatars negotiating the anxieties of late millennial and Generation Z strivers. Review | ‘The Survivalists’ pits corporate climbing against armageddon readiness 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z They portray Santos as a striver, whose tendency toward embellishment and one-upsmanship left them with doubts about his many claimed accomplishments. As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Running for Congress would be her first reinvention: from staff member to principal, insider to outsider, Beltway striver to North Country native. The Invention of Elise Stefanik 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The presence of a fresh foe full of unapologetic strivers made Belgium look as if it was dwelling in the fumes of quarterfinal and semifinal showings in the past two World Cups. Canada’s World Cup return looked smashing in every way except one 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The Metro blared “You’ve never had it so bad,” while the generally Conservative-supporting Daily Mail said accusingly: “Tories soak the strivers.” Relief meets fear as UK budget calms economy but brings pain 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Boomers — those hard-working, strivers with pensions and retirement plans — largely got old-fashioned jobs when they came of age. Opinion | Millennial jobs baffle boomers 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s the Ivy League, the bankers, the strivers and the hustlers. Why is Ralph Lauren so good at ‘prep?’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Jenkins: How to draw the line between sports cheaters and sports strivers? Gerrit Cole finally delivers, lifts Yankees past Guardians in ALDS opener 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Rising home prices and income inequality priced many out of the market, but for strivers who aspired to homeownership, the latest ruptures to the economy hit hard. ‘You Can Feel the Fear’: U.K. Borrowers Face Up to Broken Mortgage Market 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z He cut a distinctive personality in a newsroom filled with eager strivers seeking front-page stories that would get them on Sunday talk shows. Mike Causey, Federal Diary columnist for three decades, dies at 82 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The daughter of millworkers in a Derbyshire town, she had a visceral grasp of Cromwell’s predicament, a striver in an era when commoners were considered lower life forms by the aristocracy. Appreciation: Hillary Mantel wasn't just a novelist. She raised the dead 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The new documentary “Sidney” respectfully traces that life, delivering a portrait of a striver hoping to improve everything he did every day. New movies in Seattle-area theaters this week: ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ ‘Blonde’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruto, 55, the country’s vice president and a wealthy businessman, cast himself as champion of Kenya’s “hustler nation” — the disillusioned, mostly young strivers struggling to gain a foothold. Kenya Declares New President, but Battle May Not Be Over 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruto’s campaign was a repeated appeal to Kenya’s “hustlers” — the youthful strivers who find themselves underemployed or unemployed and are itching to better themselves. From Barefoot Student to Power Broker: William Ruto Is Declared Kenya’s President 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruto, 55, also a wealthy businessman, cast himself as champion of Kenya’s “hustler nation” — the disillusioned, mostly young strivers struggling to gain a foothold. A winner is announced, but uncertainty reigns. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z He’s a bundle of contradictions, assertive in his Marxist views — with a little Nietzsche on the side, they pair together here — but still weak-kneed years after a divorce from his striver wife. Review | In ‘The Great Man Theory’ a middle-aged man can’t shift out of neutral 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In his junior year of high school, Agustin brought home an application for a learner’s permit — and all of a sudden his striver’s journey hit a dead end. A 'Jane the Virgin' writer shares the story 'Hollywood wasn’t quite ready to tell' 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In Parliament on June 22, he accused Labour politicians of “backing the strikers, while we back the strivers.” Britain Gears Up for a Summer of Labor Discontent 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Those who leave are strivers, seekers of opportunity, keen to improve their lot and help relatives back home in a time-honored tradition. The 53 migrants who died in Texas included this college-educated Honduran couple 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Instead, he writes in “First Impressions,” his identity as “a mixed kid, an ambitious dreamer and a tireless striver” were subsumed by the controversy. 'The Bachelor' made a 'sideshow' of its first Black star. Now he's speaking out 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s a smart, gutsy, wholly unexpected movie that, at its center, is an old-fashioned story about an ambitious striver overcoming the odds to become another American success story. 6 movies open May 27 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z He was an overwrought, sweat-flushed striver who seethed over every mistake. Perspective | Beneath Steve Kerr’s self-control is a life’s worth of outrage and grief 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The Westside — with its high rents, sprawling homes and numerous exclusive communities — is a place that beckons to the strivers. ‘Chic' carpet is the interior design trend born from the dustbin of American culture 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z It is the story of strivers, and Desouza — the Baltimore kid turned computer science graduate and now enchanting co-star — adds every sports fan’s character to this Hollywood creation: the underdog. Perspective | The Baltimore kid who gave ‘Winning Time’ an underdog soul 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “People are always afraid of decline,” he said, “but for strivers really invested in professional excellence, it’s their death fear.” Rounding life’s second curve a hard road of self discovery 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z For 15 months, a parade of supplicants — senators, governors, congressional leaders and Republican strivers of all stripes — have made the trek to pledge their loyalty and pitch their candidacies. Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z In Shackleton’s time, the hardiest adventurers — those strivers to the uttermost — made journeys to the poles. The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Even the from-nothing strivers on the show are ruined by their jobs. The Age of Anti-Ambition 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Seehorn’s Kim is a Type A striver with a rebellious streak; she wants to do work more meaningful than representing a regional bank and finds something alluring in Jimmy’s reckless heterodoxy. Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z For strivers, such deficits are what they fear the most. Rounding life’s second curve a hard road of self discovery 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z His essay explains the rise of cryptocurrencies through the lens of rising inequality, pandemic-era isolation and loneliness, self-dealing venture capitalists, and a desperate sense among young strivers that the future is only ever getting smaller. Three things Web3 should fix in 2022 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z I have felt dismissed at times as an ambitious striver, or because I wasn’t an obvious fit in a room full of wealthy, overeducated people, with my rednecky accent and teeth unmolested by modern orthodontics. Opinion | A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill) 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z This time it's the Elon Musk type claiming to reach new frontiers not as part of a community but as an individual striver, on a rocket ship, alone. The cruel failure of welfare reform in the Southwest 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Even though Didion wasn’t a radical, that critique resonates with my students, all strivers and dreamers like all community college students are. Column: Joan Didion, California and the enduring power of 'our special history' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Some are familiar names like Elon Musk at Tesla, while Mr. Egan and others are strivers looking for their first break in mineral-rich places like Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the South Pacific. Green-Energy Race Draws an American Underdog to Bolivia’s Lithium 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Working-class strivers, including Campbell’s grandparents, raised families and bought homes, viewing property as a path toward equality. How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z We strivers understand this because we’ve never been able to achieve great successes without that effort. Opinion | A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill) 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Caruso embodied the archetypical character of the striver who moved to Los Angeles with big dreams. L.A.'s best NBA team might be east of the Mississippi 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Those rallying cries encourage the striver to remain on the offensive. Perspective | Remembering where Colin Powell came from 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z I am sympathetic to people like Mr. Watson and Ms. Holmes — strivers whose dreams apparently led them into deception. What They Saw in Ozy 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z These strivers have no use for jihad, but the year is 1999 and the FBI is already on high terror alert. It's been 20 years. Long enough to name the most memorable novel about Sept. 11 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z We strivers cannot behave as if things come easily because pretending that they do often requires resources we lack. Opinion | A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill) 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The pub has survived, he said, because of government relief and customer loyalty — plus a healthy serving of striver’s ingenuity. Commuter Trains Have Kept Rolling. Will All Those Riders Ever Return? 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Like other Republican strivers, including New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 ranking member of the House GOP, his evolution was swift. Joining Trump at border, GOP congressman eyes path to power 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z White House staffers are often of a type, hard-charging strivers who crave their own sliver of the limelight or even trade on a famous name. Cesar Chavez’s legacy lives on in Biden’s staff, Oval Office 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Her supporters say she is cerebral, calm under pressure and generally lacking the kind of visible ego that is endemic to Washington strivers. One of Big Tech’s Biggest Critics Is Now Its Regulator 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z If they practiced self-compassion rather than castigating themselves, many psychologists would consider them "adaptive strivers" as well. The quest for "perfect parenting" is screwing us all 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z How glorious it was to be back among the living, the strivers, the hopeful, the lovers and the losers who won’t say “uncle.” Losers, Lovers, Strivers: The 60-Second Novelist Is Ready to Listen 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z If the United States wants more working-age people to contribute to our economy, there are millions of strivers around the world ready and eager to pitch in. Opinion | The baby bust won’t end without government action 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. Young adults’ relocations are reshaping political geography 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Often one generation of immigrants in service jobs raises the next generation of corporate strivers. There Is No Rung on the Ladder That Protects You From Hate 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The allegations have jeopardized the promising career of a small-town striver whose only offense, they argue, was poking fun at the powerful establishment in a country that increasingly seems to lack a sense of humor. The young Indian stand-up who's in jail for a joke he didn't tell 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The event was the culmination of a year that has turned him from a Hollywood striver to a conservative agitator. Radical anti-vaccine faction that shut down Dodger Stadium says it is not done 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z His playing career, he said, was hindered by injuries, and he wanted to create opportunities for other thwarted strivers. The Raptors Are New to Tampa’s Basketball Scene. The Titans Aren’t. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z I see the enemies of Black and brown strivers like myself. America the undead: Trump's mob attacked a democracy already weakened by his war on reality 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Potes is in the long tradition of American strivers; he hasn’t had it easy. Opinion | Thankfully Trump failed to deport the ‘dreamers.’ This Rhodes scholar shows what we would have lost. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z That hardly made him unique: Many strivers never gain entrance into New York high society. New Yorkers knew Donald Trump first — and they spurned him before many American voters did 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver? How ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z It was a victory for solid, unspectacular strivers everywhere. With humility and empathy, Biden speech seeks to make America sane again | David Smith's sketch 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z These programs — some affiliated with specific parties, some nonpartisan — often provide housing and function sort of like a young professional sleepaway camp for like-minded strivers. One More Thing the Pandemic Election Upended: First Campaign Job Rites of Passage 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The husband and wife were strivers, and took pride in building the business. ‘It’s Fall! Here We Are!’ A Beloved Chocolate Shop Returns 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Andrew Martin story collection “Cool for America” features troubled strivers shuttling between the elite northeast and rough, charming Montana. Review: These creepy, electric stories will grab hold of you and never let go 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The narrator of “Utopia Parkway,” though, may be Schlesinger’s most lovable local hero: An outer-borough striver with big plans. Adam Schlesinger loved the suburban strivers he wrote about, no more so than on 'Utopia Parkway' 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The more skeptical reading of this places Mr. Buttigieg’s bid in the context of a precocious striver who was desperate to raise his national profile by climbing whatever ladder happened to be available to him. The Political Junkie Runs for President 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He’s a striver, a hustler, working the borderlands between entrepreneurship and con artistry. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Already a striver, Adam had determined that he would outdo the neighborhood boy who was the best “burp-talker.” Adam Schiff takes on Trump, calling him an 'erratic hothead.' Now he's feeling the heat 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z On left Twitter, it is axiomatic that Buttigieg is not merely a relentlessly ambitious striver but an actual “sociopath.” How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z An industry of marine colleges emerged to serve the class of strivers seeking the jobs. The Lonely and Dangerous Life of the Filipino Seafarer 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z He, on the other hand, was quite the opposite: a scrappy, self-absorbed, standoffish and intense striver. Review | He critiqued a callous health-care system. Then he experienced it firsthand. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z They lived on vice and played on murder; vicious strivers in a land of dupes. For Martin Scorsese, making 'The Irishman' was about 'learning to die' 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z He knows he has achieved the kind of fame and security that has eluded many Latinx strivers, and that contributes to the sense of urgency in his message of inclusion. John Leguizamo changed his show to target Trump. Why the comedian has changed it back 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, current CBS NFL color commentator and ardent golf striver will get his fourth shot at making a PGA Tour cut after receiving a sponsor’s exemption into the tournament. Tony Romo will skip his NFL game if he makes the PGA Tour cut. CBS probably shouldn’t worry. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Both were entrepreneurial strivers trying to build lives on their own terms. YouTuber finds lost GoPro video of man who drowned and returns it to his family 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “I mourn, for myself and all the free people of the world, the death of a great striver on the path of freedom.” Factbox: Calls mount for inquiry into death of Egypt's ex-president... 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z If market riptides and government pressures turn colleges into career-networking centers for strivers unaccountable to any civic community or moral code, liberal education will become a game of money, power and public relations. Resistance can't be tweeted: Social and political change is built on reading 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z All seemed to be loners, solitary strivers, mulling and solving life’s hardest problems, and doing so largely by themselves. The Secret Sauce for Environmental Problem Solving 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z It was not yet clear whether she was just a striver seeking selfies at the president’s resort or whether she had links to Chinese intelligence. Malware Arrest Exposes Security Gaps at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z His classmate, Eric H. Holder Jr., rose from a strivers’ neighborhood in Queens to become the first black attorney general of the United States. 50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z George Mason is filled with strivers, not schemers. Perspective | No bribery needed to go to George Mason, a university of strivers, not schemers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And they care about opportunity — enough to understand that Ivy League seats reserved for rich kids mean less room for meritorious strivers. Opinion | No, Ivanka Trump. People don’t want to work for the sake of work. 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z “Velvet Buzzsaw ,” which opens on the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, assembles a glittering gallery of art-world snobs, strivers and divas. Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ a gloriously gory art-world satire 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Among the most compelling personal stories is that of Michael, a pseudonymous young striver from a failing industrial town in northeastern Ohio. Review | For black millennials, an endangered American Dream 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z His father, Victor, worked in the fields but was known in the village as a striver. How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z It’s only a few miles from the traffic-slammed interchange famously rendered in the first scene of “La La Land,” but Lamar reflects the diametric opposite of those transplant strivers. Amid the accolades, Kendrick Lamar refuses to compromise his vision, keeping it homegrown 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z A hero and/or a villain, a boxer, a painter, a driver and a striver, an outlaw and a priest. The Actors Roundtable: With these 6 characters, the stories never get old 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But he probably saw a bit of himself in the smart, curious, working-class striver with strong egalitarian political views and a streak of resentment over class, privilege and authority. Review | Ambitious, flawed Ben Franklin on a path to greatness 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z As the backlash against what the Sun described as a "strivers' tax" gathered pace, Mr Hammond did indeed think again. Pastygate and tax 'giveaways': Budgets that backfired 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z In the 19th Century, the state beckoned East Coast strivers with the promise of easy gold and fertile farmland. How California is changing the US 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z A just world would label her an achiever, a striver, a person with grit. How 20 years of stop and search has widened America’s racial divide 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z And in a sport that demands absolute perfection from its strivers -death is the only alternative - Honnold’s feat on El Cap is his masterpiece. In ‘Free Solo,’ a steeper challenge for Honnold than El Cap 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And in the distance, a view of this city that served as a reminder of why Hollywood, small-town dreamers and ambitious strivers can’t shake its allure. Review | Ralph Lauren’s sumptuous 50th anniversary show was the great American Dream merchant at his finest 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has little patience for political opponents who paint all immigrants as saintly strivers. Opinion | What Trump and His Foes Get Wrong About Immigrants 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Her characters were often artistic strivers, aspiring actresses and singers whose ambitions exceeded their talents. Barbara Harris, scene-stealing actress of screen and stage, dies at 83 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z With “Sollers Point,” Baltimore filmmaker Matthew Porterfield’s fourth feature set in the working-class environs of his home town, the director stakes his claim as the poet laureate of the region’s losers and strivers. Review | ‘Sollers Point’ is a gritty, honest tale about post-prison life in Baltimore 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Scavino was then leading the placid life of a suburban striver. The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z He's a striver, a refuse-to-quitter — a man for whom success is no reason to rest. The iHeartRadio Music Awards should have let awards season die 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Throughout, Blackmun, a lawyer, seemed more interested in managing the USOC’s civil liability and exposure than in caring for its medal strivers. Perspective | Scott Blackmun’s painful USOC legacy: Knowledge, inaction and misplaced priorities 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Furiously, she “Pucci’d and Gucci’d”, hoping the camouflage would help her fit in, that she could somehow make a go of it as an upwardly mobile female striver. US feminist Susan Brownmiller on why her groundbreaking book on rape is still relevant 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Unquestionably, it’s been convenient and made Belichick’s coaching job immeasurably easier to have a star quarterback who is perpetually the team’s most consumed striver. Perspective | The Patriots will never win enough for Belichick and Brady 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “I always laughed,” she said of her younger self, a striver in corporate America. Analysis | In Davos, a #MeToo moment gets unexpectedly emotional 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Their rhetoric paints immigrants as the fabric of the American experience and as strivers seeking a chance at success. ‘Language as a weapon’: In Trump era, immigration debate grows more heated over what words to use 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Then there is Lewis, the British caterer and social striver, and a food story riddled with the pressures of class. A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z At last, this veteran pop striver finds material worthy of her voice. Mikael Wood's top 10 albums of 2017 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I shudder at the thought of Esalen now becoming a "Bohemian Grove" for tech industry strivers. Where Silicon Valley Is Going to Get in Touch With Its Soul 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z My first job out of college in the late 1980s was at Salomon Brothers, a trading house of cigar-smoking, expletive-spewing strivers. Opinion | The Cost of Devaluing Women 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z In 2010, Emma Bowers was one of the thousands of Hollywood strivers who perform creative work, for little to no pay, with the hope of gaining a toehold in the industry. 'You'll never work again': women tell how sexual harassment broke their careers 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z For the former chancellor George Osborne, it was about skivers v strivers. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z In a tale of real and imaginary American strivers, as one character declares, “It’s all about the journey.” How the 5th Avenue’s ‘Ragtime’ is different than the Broadway original 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z He would lure eager female strivers into “business” meetings in his luxury hotel rooms where he’d ask them for massages. Opinion | Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O’Reilly Treatment? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z "This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we'd want our own kids to be treated." Daca Dreamers: Obama slams axing of young migrant scheme - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Obama countered later Tuesday, writing on Twitter that "to target hopeful young strivers who grew up here is wrong, because they’ve done nothing wrong." Read Barack Obama's Statement on Trump Rescinding DACA 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z That night there would be sixteen strivers making presentations and seven “certified investors,” according to the email invitation from the organizers. Looking for the future of technology among the startup strivers 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Publishing fortunes could be made in public schools, as well as correspondence courses for business strivers. Calligrapher practices the write stuff 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Trump began his White House bid by labeling immigrants from Mexico as “criminals” and “rapists” — a stark departure from predecessors careful to characterize most undocumented immigrants as hard-working strivers. Trump’s wall: The inside story of how the president crafts immigration policy 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The failure of two mammoth chains, Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institutes, capped years of complaints that some career training schools took advantage of veterans and other strivers, using deceptive marketing and illegal recruitment practices. U.S. Halts New Rules Aimed at Abuses by For-Profit Schools 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z To target hopeful young strivers who grew up here is wrong, because they’ve done nothing wrong. Read Barack Obama's Statement on Trump Rescinding DACA 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z All these and others are ways for strivers to fall by the wayside — as the startup culture sees it — while their betters race ahead of them. Looking for the future of technology among the startup strivers 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z What happens on the canvas is often just the externalizing of a striver’s will to survive, fulfill a dream or beat the odds. Boxing drama 'Chuck' delivers with Liev Schreiber as the real-life 'Rocky' 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It claims the Tories are ready to hit White Van Man - as well "strivers" and OAPs. Newspaper headlines: Pension pinching and potential tax hikes - BBC News 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Each plunges us into the passages of early 20th century strivers and leaves us with a shattering final image of departure. Review: ‘The Lost City of Z’ is a mesmerizing adventure 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But the report briefly mentions one other interesting variable: the “class ceiling” that holds back strivers who weren’t born at the right level on the social hierarchy. Race and gender can be barriers to making it in the entertainment industry. But so can class. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z His team has also found elevated levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, and adrenaline circulating in the blood of strivers from a young age. Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In many ways the 30-year-old’s transformation from slacker to striver sums up the progress Villa have made since the dark days of relegation. FA Cup: talking points from the third round matches 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The Brownsville of their youth, with its strivers and the lively stretches of Pitkin Avenue, began to give way by the ’60s to depopulation and disintegration. Behind Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Rebirth, a Woman Who Joined in a Dream 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It takes a sure hand to craft a series that blends a pair of young musical strivers from a downtrodden urban neighborhood - while keeping the series touching, relatable and funny. ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘This Is Us,’ ‘Westworld’ among year’s best 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He attracts the worst people to him, sycophants and power-hungry strivers who will be placed in positions of authority and who will obey the boss’ diktat above anything else. President Trump: A colossal failure for democracy, and our terrifying new reality 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z In 2015, they found that white blood cells among strivers were prematurely aged relative to those of their peers. Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z While those are the stable families, the strivers, Mr. Rodríguez’s building housed people who had fallen off the rails. Quest for a New Life Ends in a Tangle of Gang Ties 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Trump, reading from a teleprompter, sounded almost like a conventional politician as he spoke about “breaking up the special-interest monopoly” and described America as “a nation of strivers, dreamers, and believers.” Kellyanne Conway’s Political Machinations 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Another possible factor is that, contrary to Trump’s bigoted rhetoric, many immigrants are ambitious strivers who are highly motivated to support their families and make a better life for their children. Trump and the Truth: Immigration and Crime 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z That these cities have grown into centers of opportunity largely for those who already have it is not good for the cities, which need strivers to flourish. Why the High Cost of Big City Living is Bad for Everyone 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s an absolutely insane story of the ambition, delusion and megalomania of a few young strivers who managed to find a lucrative place in the international arms game. Review: ‘War Dogs’ tells a crazy story of young arms dealers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics,” he said. Trump aims at voters he already has, betting they will give him a November win 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics. Transcript: Donald Trump at the G.O.P. Convention 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics. Donald Trump's complete convention speech, annotated 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. Read Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “We don’t win anymore, but we are going to start winning again. . . . America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.” Donald Trump positions himself as the voice of ‘the forgotten men and women’ 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z For all its woes now, Cuba was an even tougher place 36 years ago for dissidents and economic strivers. Wages of Mariel 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A striver now, Mr. Peacock said he hopes his summer of sometimes 70-hour workweeks will help him gain an edge when he applies to law school after graduation. Part-Time Jobs and Thrift: How Unpaid Interns in D.C. Get By 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z They’re all modest strivers, stymied by the littlest things, and dealing with frustration by refusing to adapt. Taika Waititi's Hunt For The Wilderpeople is a strange, perfect dry run for Thor: Ragnarok 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Unemployment benefit for the same age group is only £73.10 a week at best but Britain is a nation of strivers, not skivers. When a job is not enough 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In an election season often dominated by nativist rhetoric, it reconfigures America’s founding as the work of immigrant strivers, while managing an infectious beat and a tearjerker ending. Tony awards 2016: who will win – and who should 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z First, a catalyst: nationalist Euroscepticism is an expression of fury at an establishment that, in straitened times, appears to do too much for spendthrift southern Europeans and migrants, and too little for local strivers. The new J-curve 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville on Jan. 17, 1942, into a family of strivers that included teachers, musicians and craftsmen. Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z To some extent, every NBA player is both a natural and a striver. NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Even when we ostensibly spotlight black history in February, we concentrate on the achievements of black strivers — never the American hell they strove against. ‘Roots’ kindles in us the courage to confront the history of us 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z What sort of hyper-ambitious and amoral striver could look upon the Trump campaign, with all its crass nativism and organizational disarray and ideological incoherence, and see in it the perfect vehicle to advance their interests? Trump and Newt are a perfect match: “Outsider,” “populist” Trump has the D.C. barnacle on his VP short list 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just that her parents had spoiled her; she was an implacable social striver who hated and denied her backwoods Minnesota background as much as he loved and celebrated his own; she was unbearable. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Dreamers’ and strivers’ and activists’ progress are this nation’s hallmarks. Obama delivers commencement speech at Rutgers: 'Ignorance is not a virtue' 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He is what psychologists would call a striver. NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It does indeed recast bohemia in a convincingly up-to-date guise—in Brooklyn, of course, where thousands of the art world’s threadbare strivers reside. Art’s One-Woman Insurgency 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Far from being rioters or criminals, they are the strivers our culture celebrates. Baltimore’s youths can be more successful than their parents 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It found dark laughs in the dialectic of striver psychology, as the Evans family flips between two equally extreme reactions to racism and poverty. “Black-ish” Transforms the Family Sitcom 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The Chinese tale of doomed romance is set mostly in Shanghai in the early 1990s, a time when — according to the movie — young strivers wanted nothing so much as to “Go West.” ‘New York New York’ review: From China, a tale of lovers looking to the States 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But there’s another explanation for why James is untouchable in the minds of many basketball fans: People say they like strivers, but secretly they prefer naturals. NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It's a novelty to see her, however briefly, playing a wealthy, successful character, instead of a scrabbling working-class striver. In The Boss, Melissa McCarthy drops her last pretense of sincerity 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z I also strongly agree with Petrilli's plea not to forget the strivers. Education Reform in the Age of Trump 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z You might not guess it from her laid-back comedy style, but Nancherla is a classic striver from Northern Virginia who earned a liberal arts degree from Amherst College. The 202 Comedy Festival is a homecoming for D.C.’s funniest 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “Ronald Reagan was a striver, but his striving was masked by his courteous, amiable manner and enduring fatalism,” biographer Lou Cannon wrote in “President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.” Nancy Reagan remembered for her forceful, private style 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The recordings were almost exactly alike, except the first pianist was described as a natural, someone with innate talent, and the second pianist was described as a striver, someone with hard-earned achievement. NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z When West débuted as a solo artist, in 2004, he came across as an Everyman striver whose petty arrogance masked a deeper set of insecurities. Kanye West Realizes His Dreams 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But the strivers are also our "best customers." Education Reform in the Age of Trump 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Cosmopolitan strivers move to New York, say, rather than sleepier cities, in part because they will meet other ambitious types with similar interests. Optimising romance 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z If Soul Cycle is the preferred workout of well-off mothers with time on their hands, Orangetheory is the workout of strivers. At the Gym, Abs and Stats 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z But basketball also proves a corollary to the natural bias: The striver is more popular than the natural. NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Instead Jeb Bush, a single-digit striver with nothing to lose, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who barely qualified for Tuesday night’s session, took on the front-runner. Republicans' sharp-elbowed presidential debate isn't likely to shake many voters 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z In another variant, it was stated explicitly that they were either naturals or strivers, though the investors were not told that this was the factor of most interest to the researcher. Best or Keegan? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But there may well be pain for what MPs perhaps patronisingly call "strivers" in the period of transition, Osborne's big idea - BBC News 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Of course, Rubio also has a big achilles heel: he isn’t a plucky striver who has budgeted carefully and made no mistakes. Marco Rubio made a lot of bad money choices – and voters can relate to that 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z "Why? Because the reforms arise from wrong assumptions - that we have a Britain divided between strivers and skivers." Gordon Brown urges halt to tax credits cuts 'mistake' - BBC News 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Many residents were optimistic strivers who worked at companies near the Port of Tianjin or ran businesses that thrived on its operations. Months After Blasts in China, Rebuilding Tianjin Homes and Lives Is a Struggle 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The study then calculated how much, on average, the investors would be willing to trade off any of the entrepreneurs’ other attributes in order to choose a natural or a striver. Best or Keegan? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Fogerty is no mystic, though; he comes across as a striver, as someone who tries harder than everybody else. Successful and disastrous career of music legend 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Yost grew up in California’s Livermore Valley as an undersize striver seeking a sport in which he could excel. How Ned Yost Made the Kansas City Royals Unstoppable 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z We have a long and supported tradition of an earned path to citizenship for immigrants that gives strivers a chance to pay this country back. A Losing Trump Card 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z "It is part of an ongoing attack on the incomes of some of the most hard working families in our constituencies - those very strivers the chancellor purported to support." Commons back Osborne plan for tax credit cuts - BBC News 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “But the notion that male strivers are few and far between leaves me despondent.” Girls are the majority at some of D.C.’s top high schools, which some see as an inequity 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z This aging, mature version of Williams is not afraid to be an overt striver. Serena Williams has finally decided what she wants out of life: Everything 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z One long gallery wall is devoted to a nearly 250-year timeline of innovators and strivers. ‘American Enterprise’ Review: A Skewed History of American Business 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z In life, though, Dr. Kalam surrounded himself more with the strivers than the celebrities. From Hundreds of Miles Away, Indians Converge to Honor Abdul Kalam 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt said: "It is little more than a tax on aspiration and exposes this government as certainly not being on the side of the strivers." Poorest graduates 'will owe £53,000' after grants cut - BBC News 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Waters belongs to a circle of strivers that Duncan has quietly cultivated, students across the country who are clearing hurdles that would discourage many others. Even as Congress moves to strip his power, Arne Duncan holds his ground 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And if they didn’t win after giving it their all, the noble strivers had nothing to be ashamed of. Team Geniuses--Jerks Or Angels? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Middle class strivers do “meds” and succeed while slimming down. ADHD drugs are as dangerous as street meth - and Americans are getting hooked | Alexander Zaitchik 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z As I’ve written before, I first encountered him when he was an ambitious staffer on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign 15 years ago, and he positioned himself as a young striver, not a hard-edged ideologue. Ted Cruz, charlatan 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z These are the hungry temp workers of the league, the undrafted strivers, the sacrificial lambs offered up to complete a season that was cooked by Christmas. Amid a Woeful Circus, Basketball’s Lowly Strivers Carry the Knicks 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The book introduces Moses the eager striver, a Jewish outsider driven perhaps by “a powerful desire for revenge in a white Protestant world.” Robert Moses, French Comic Book Hero 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. Text of Obama’s remark at Selma anniversary commemoration 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. Obama's Selma speech: 'Our march is not yet finished' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z We are the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because they want their kids to know a better life. Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z What Taylor delivers is a striver, schemer and survivor who had been bullied his whole life. ‘Gotham’ star Taylor delights fans with his Penguin villainy 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z They are second-graders and high school seniors, athletes and artists, strugglers and strivers, each finding a path through a childhood marred by loss. - The Washington Post 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z She said that Democrats must always prioritize the underdogs, the strivers. Gina Raimondo's Approach to Income Inequality 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Nedra Martin’s family was among the black strivers who began to make their way to Normandy in the 1970s. How School Segregation Divides Ferguson — and the United States 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z When people say “Court Street lawyer,” they generally mean a street-smart sharpie who may not have an Ivy League degree but does possess verve, hustle and a striver’s charisma. A Rape Claim Has Put Sandy Rubenstein on the Edge of Disgrace 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Kleinbard says liberals err in focusing on raising tax rates at the top, while conservative “market triumphalists” ignore how social safety nets and social insurance encourage optimal levels of investment and risk-taking by strivers. Our Favorite Books of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks Undocumented immigrants are among the most courageous strivers in our economy. Obama's Immigration Overhaul Will Strengthen Free Enterprise 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Today’s Knowledge candidates include a new generation of London strivers. The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z This introduction focuses on the macroeconomic picture—in other words, the conditions that will help or hinder all you strivers in 2015. 2015 Global Economic Outlook: Better Than 2014—but Not By Much 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z In the movie’s elite context, however, “acting white” isn’t a symptom or a consequence of a debilitating victimhood that results in strivers suffering cruel social consequences. It's time to abandon the 'acting white' theory once and for all 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z It is just the kind of success story many of the young strivers in the audience have come to hear, but the question from the audience is of a more altruistic nature. The Tech Industry Wants to Show You Its Humanity Our newcomers are strivers, our native-borns spring from some of the country’s bravest, boldest thinkers. D.C.’s meh-yoral election: Bowser, Catania, Schwartz? Meh. It doesn’t help the many high-achieving, low-income strivers who don’t apply to top colleges — and often don’t graduate from any college. ‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z But what these strivers were searching for usually went beyond the stated task. An excerpt of "The Happiness of Pursuit" 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z What these figures show is a volatile international market in a world full of young academic strivers. Howard U.’s Kathmandu connection: Nepal emerges as top source of foreign students This is the age of meditation for strivers. The Parts of the Brain You Use The Most and Other Fascinating News of the Web 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z To Mr. Kasem, the people making pop music were young strivers after the American dream. Casey Kasem, king of the top-40 countdown and ‘Scooby-Doo’ voice-over artist, dies It’s not that the thousands of strivers here don’t care about the insurgency in Iraq; they probably haven’t heard of it. Silicon Valley Keeps Solving Problems—Just Not the Big Ones Here’s hoping the therapists of Park Slope and Noe Valley are prepared, because beginning this week, tech-savvy urban strivers are in for a shock. For Instagram, a Photo-Editing System of Uncommon Power 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Abraham, who has appeared in sex tapes, was writing a trilogy about a striver who goes down the same path. New York's BookCon: 'Where literature and pop culture collide' 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Lekki is like New Jersey—a part of Lagos where strivers live. Nigeria’s Nollywood Is Thriving Despite Terrible Conditions 2014-05-13T09:45:55Z Like many Puerto Rican strivers who came of age in New York City a half-century ago, he had little choice but to deploy his talent on multiple fronts. Jack Agüeros, 79, a Champion of El Barrio, Dies 2014-05-06T05:11:22Z Even in his perch as a managing partner at venture firm Sequoia Capital, Leone still carries himself like a hard-luck striver, scrambling for his first decent break. Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory 2014-03-26T10:00:00Z A review of one of the new sleep books says it’s “for sleep strivers,” which is, when you step back from it, one of the most insane phrases ever written. Riff: How Did Sleep Become So Nightmarish? 2014-03-21T14:25:31Z Contrary to popular belief, Barone argues, liberalism was not founded on supporting an increasing role of government in daily life to help the "working-class striver". Liberal elitism and the middle class 2014-02-18T18:55:25Z The fellow immigrant strivers of Stuyvesant High School, who seem so much better adapted for a lifetime of professional success. Op-Ed Contributor: It’s the Most Unknowable Time of the Year 2013-12-24T23:51:17Z They continue to look at the struggle of those on the margins, at failure among bungling strivers with grandiose dreams. “Inside Llewyn Davis”: America at its ugliest 2013-12-07T18:00:00Z It targets young urban and suburban professionals, whom Sion calls optimistic strivers. Mobile Spending Management To Monitor Black Friday, And Monday... 2013-11-27T14:52:00Z Obama also renewed his call for comprehensive immigration reform and hailed California as “a magnet for dreamers and strivers.” Obama speaks on economy with DreamWorks studios as background 2013-11-26T21:35:34Z But she’s a striver and an optimist with an infectious laugh. Federal Diary: Feds seeking unemployment checks show harsh impact of government shutdown 2013-10-15T23:23:45Z Goodman was quiet, serious and determined on the course, a likable striver in whom others saw potential. Hometown Hero 2013-07-10T04:00:00Z A+E has thrived thanks in part to a slate of reality shows that focus on lifestyles far removed from the office-tied lives of the white-collar, urban strivers who make TV. A+E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc, the Duck Whisperer 2013-06-20T09:50:07Z A son of the North Carolina Piedmont, Price is your classic small-business man, striver, dreamer. The Unwinding: How to Reverse 40 Years of American Decline 2013-06-06T20:05:23Z Talent and luck are unequally distributed among determined strivers. Hardship and poverty are different. Our welfare system should recognise this 2013-05-01T09:00:02Z Powerful people took a liking to this energetic striver. In Silicon Valley Talent War, Zombie Math Rules 2013-04-17T12:00:00Z The essence of Thatcherism was to oppose the status quo and bet on freedom—odd, since as a prim, upwardly mobile striver, she was in some ways the embodiment of conservatism. Margaret Thatcher: Freedom fighter 2013-04-11T15:18:13Z The churches said they rejected Conservative attempts to frame the debate on welfare as aspirational "strivers" versus work-shy "skivers", a narrative that is gaining traction in Britain according to some opinion polls. Britain's Osborne defends welfare cuts after church attacks 2013-04-01T00:07:06Z Photograph: Odd Andersen The worry is that Germany thinks of itself as a nation of strivers bankrolling a continent of skivers. Is Germany too powerful for Europe? 2013-03-31T18:00:01Z To ram home the point, Osborne did a state of the union-style shout-out to individual MPs, backbench campaigners who had taken up specific striver concerns. George Osborne's budget speech attempts to pull off a trick of the eye 2013-03-20T20:22:21Z Robert HainesShrewsbury I am one of those people Will Hutton refers to as "a well-off 'striver' in a leafy suburb". Housing: don't build more – let's make better use of our existing stock 2013-03-03T00:05:39Z The coalition wants to pit public sector workers against private sector workers, just as it tries to divide us into "strivers" or "shirkers". North-east England's 'bounce back' is not all good news 2013-02-13T13:24:33Z “Some will doubt you,” said the narrator in the ad over soft-focus images of mostly young, ethnically diverse strivers. Scientology Runs Super Bowl Ad 2013-02-06T02:14:33Z There was instead talk of a division between "strivers" and "skivers". If Sarah Taylor joins men's cricket, it may not help the women's game 2013-01-15T16:50:53Z But the shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, claimed it was a "strivers tax" that would "hit working families" hardest, and said Labour would vote against the plans. VIDEO: House of Commons 2013-01-08T15:53:02Z It says deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is unhappy with Tory rhetoric contrasting "shirkers verses strivers". Papers critical of coalition review 2013-01-08T05:45:13Z Sarah Teather said using terms such as strivers and scroungers to justify cuts to benefits was "unworthy" of the coalition and risked creating "envy and division" between different groups. Ex-minister attacks benefit plans 2013-01-07T14:05:38Z However, she warned that changes introduced under the Universal Credit system would not help the poorest "strivers" for whom "work doesn't pay". Childcare costs 'impossible' for many 2013-01-07T11:15:37Z And while the government likes to pretend it's on the side of "strivers", tomorrow the chaotic and unfair child benefit cuts become a reality. Hard-working families are picking up the bill for George Osborne's failure 2013-01-05T21:07:39Z Now he wants to hit working families again with his strivers tax bill. Benefit rises unfair, says minister 2013-01-02T04:29:52Z Others point to the binary narrative that's emerged surrounding the debate about benefits: with talk of strivers, shirkers and scroungers. The Tories and blue collar voters 2012-12-31T07:20:33Z Low-income strivers face uphill climbs, especially at Ball High School, where a third of the girls’ class failed to graduate on schedule. Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success 2012-12-22T23:44:18Z That would include many of the blue-collar strivers the Tories seek to reassure. Bagehot: A season of dolour and dole 2012-12-13T16:07:43Z Or in the parlance of the moment, "the strivers" v "the skivers". Labour's line in the sand on benefits 2012-12-12T21:00:04Z Miliband told Cameron the chancellor was engaged in a game of "divide and rule" by seeking to portray those on benefits as "scroungers", and that the government was imposing a "tax on strivers". Cameron defends welfare cuts, saying Tories are 'party for people who work' 2012-12-12T15:01:00Z It's the Autumn Statement decision to cap - or should that be cut? - the benefits - or should that be the tax credits? - of shirkers - or are they really strivers? Cuts - Mind your language 2012-12-12T12:27:15Z But the coalition hit back, saying "strivers" would be better off when all the changes - such as raising tax thresholds - were taken into account. Battle over 'strivers' tax' claim 2012-12-06T14:48:54Z His schism between skivers and strivers is an illusion: working parents claim tax credits too. Social security cuts: hard times 2012-12-07T19:17:05Z Labour MPs' surgeries brim with stories that need to be told, of families evicted unable to pay soaring rents, of children trapped in bed-and-breakfast single rooms, of "strivers" sinking through no fault of their own. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z In the parlance of the hour, he seeks to set the strivers against the skivers. Osborne's interviews and autumn statement reaction: Politics live blog 2012-12-06T15:38:03Z Today Ed Miliband claimed the government was introducing a "strivers' tax". Cuts - Mind your language 2012-12-12T12:27:15Z Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne attacked the benefit squeeze as a "strivers' tax" saying it made a mockery of David Cameron's claim that he was on the side of Britain's hard working families. Battle over 'strivers' tax' claim 2012-12-06T14:48:54Z With about 1,200 such homes, it is a magnet for strivers. Swallowing Rain Forest, Brazilian Cities Surge in Amazon 2012-11-24T17:53:43Z He will denounce Osborne's mendacious dividing of "strivers" from "skivers" for the disreputable dishonesty it is. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z Or a big project to restore the American commercial spirit and the small-time capitalist striver. Currents: Making Mountains, Not Molehills 2012-11-16T16:50:06Z “A striver to the max,” Petraeus’ yearbook said, “Dave was always ‘going for it’ in sports, academics, leadership, and even his social life.” Petraeus: Controversial General, Complex Legacy 2012-11-14T23:50:22Z "These are the strivers and battlers the prime minister promised to defend at his party conference and they are the people paying the price for this government's failure." Battle over 'strivers' tax' claim 2012-12-06T14:48:54Z She was seen as ambitious and as a striver who aimed to join Washington’s national security elite, and she drew resentment from officers for playing up her connection to their boss. Beyond Paula Broadwell’s TV Interviews, a Family-Focused Life 2012-11-11T19:19:09Z "These people are the strivers the government wants to help, yet their future is looking bleak," he said. Warning over workers on benefits 2012-10-22T01:45:46Z He said the Conservatives were on the side of the "strivers". MP boundary changes 'may happen' 2012-10-14T13:38:22Z It is a slim majority, but it suggests that on La Placita Avenue, in the surrounding streets and across the United States, the strivers outnumber the skeptics. Battered by the economy, Nevadans still favor Obama 2012-10-09T05:19:47Z Within the industry he was still seen as a striver with an "inflated" ego, according to two former executives at brokerages who declined to be named. PFGBest chief: Prickly Iowa hero met stiff welcome in Chicago 2012-07-13T00:41:31Z To discover the secret recipe for creating innovative, entrepreneurial young people, Wagner interviewed a handful of exceptional young strivers as well as their parents, educators and mentors. America's Schools: Innovation Killers? 2012-07-05T12:42:31Z The Festival loves the Socialist agenda the 75-year-old director brandishes in his hardscrabble stories of working class strivers, as well as his rough-hewn camera style and the density — no, the unintelligibility — of his actors’ accents. Palme d'Or Preview: Handicapping the Five Top Contenders at Cannes 2012-05-27T15:05:44Z Like Zu Zu, he is new to Rangoon, a striver with big plans. Burma's 'New Era': Hope, Humor and a Long Road Ahead 2012-04-03T12:35:24Z The bumblers, charlatans, strivers and jesters who populate the television landscape have been reassuring evidence, to a nation still fighting the ghosts of Communism and humiliation, that Russians live in a modern, and normal, country. The TV Watch: In Putin?s Russia, TV Mirrors Longing for Normalcy 2012-02-13T05:52:11Z Through interviews and a review of Mr. Adelson’s testimony in legal disputes with former associates, a portrait emerges of a formidable and determined striver who lifted himself out of childhood penury in working-class Boston. The Man Behind Gingrich?s Money 2012-01-29T01:08:55Z The strivers at the bottom of the one percent were just one big idea or one big job away from the summit. Reuters Magazine: The one percent war 2012-01-27T00:46:06Z Even now, with times so hard in this country, his up-by-the-bootstraps story is the stuff of legend, a Celtic fairy tale for strivers and climbers. Sean Quinn and Ireland?s Boom and Bust 2012-01-07T19:07:08Z Although many applicants are no doubt motivated to join out of altruism, the two-year TFA experience has become a highly desirable notch on the resumes of the nation’s most diligent strivers. Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda 2011-12-25T21:00:00Z It is a polyglot place of minorities and strivers, like Queens, with Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other groups making up 53 percent of the population, and a big dominating neighbor next door. Aurora Journal: Aurora, Colo., Tries to Outshine Its Bigger Neighbor 2011-12-13T03:21:07Z Single and childless, she was a romantic without a lover, a striver without a goal. Marathon Swimmer Diana Nyad Takes On the Demons of the Sea 2011-12-01T10:00:00Z I was a healthy and an absurdly well-educated striver. At War Blog: Back Home, and Homeless 2011-10-05T16:48:21Z Over the past quarter-century, Freud, 47, has built up the largest independent public relations firm in London, Freud Communications, predicated on the unrelenting cultivation of London’s most successful strivers. Matthew Freud Will See You Now 2011-09-01T21:25:09Z The means whereby we may rise from the false to the true are never wanting to the earnest and faithful striver, this is the esoteric truth of Fifine at the Fair. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Two of the officers spoke English fluently, and the third was a dogged striver who had mastered a great deal of our language before the end of the war. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z For these strivers, credit abounds for the first time. Brazil's New Middle Class Goes on a Spree 2011-05-12T21:00:03Z Brooks manages to be condescending to actual self-made wealthy people, not to mention "the lower middle class strivers" Trump allegedly befriends. The farce that is Donald Trump 2011-04-19T22:20:00Z After all, the very project of relating intelligence or personality traits to health outcomes seems a bit elitist: we smart, self-assured people unencumbered by neurotic fears are going to outlive you mean strivers. Jerks Die Younger 2011-03-01T21:05:54Z It's the tale of an immigrant striver, determined to make a better life for himself and his family in a nation where such dreams are still possible. The Roar of the Tiger Mom 2011-01-20T07:00:00Z Their parents’ houses are now being bought up by Dominicans and other newer strivers. A Slice of Queens Where People Who Arrived in 1977 Are Newcomers 2011-01-08T01:40:02Z But in both worlds — in the 1960s and the 2000s — it is men who are the strivers, producers, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and, in the end, billionaires. The Female Factor: New World, Same Old Gender Roles 2010-10-26T10:47:00Z O'Donnell is clearly a determined striver, but it seems she also romanticizes traditional female roles. Christine O'Donnell, Tolkien scholar 2010-09-16T13:01:00Z The language of gamers is, when you begin to decipher it, the language of strivers. Learning by Playing 2010-09-16T13:08:00Z Her Crystal in “The Women” is a proud, tough-as-nails working-class striver who also displays vulnerability. In Canada, Shaw Plays Well With Others 2010-08-19T08:20:00Z After leaving home as a 16-year-old, she built the résumé of an undeterred striver — cleaning houses, waiting on tables and hawking products at trade shows and county fairs. TV Cook Sandra Lee Is Cuomo?s First Lady 2010-05-15T01:23:00Z You see, he is not a commercial traveller, nor a business man, but an artist; one of those restless strivers after the ideal. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Therefore let Mephistopheles, the spirit of negation, try his worst, and at the last discover how an earnest striver's ways are justified by God. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Most laughable, perhaps, are your indefatigable strivers after eloquence. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Full surely his end approached 65 On earth ungentle, even as he lived, Stern striver for evil, while still in this world He dwelt under the roof of the clouds. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose Oh! why is it that so many of God’s children have no desire for this honour—being princes of God, strivers with God, and prevailing? The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer But I recant, and vow 'twas thrifty care That kept my pen from spending on slight ware, And breath'd it for a prize, whose pow'rful shine Doth both reward the striver, and refine. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II So also spoke another great Teacher, nearly three thousand years earlier: "Among thousands of men scarce one striveth for perfection; of the successful strivers scarce one knoweth me in essence." Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries She is a veritable Goddess to the young striver, speaking the word of hope and wisdom, and then turning him back upon himself. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The magic spell of the house of tapestries has fallen like the dew from heaven to bless the striver in our modern life of exigency and fatigue. The Tapestry Book And will you still doubt whether God is able to make you “strivers with God,” princes who prevail with Him? The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer Through all the bewildering discord of his thoughts the face of Perpetua seemed to shine clearly, like the light on a pharos to a striver in an angry sea. The Proud Prince Let their thank be such as may encourage no strivers for the like. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth In the Odyssey, the relation is plainly evolved out of that described in the Iliad; the one is the boundless striver, the other rests in the established order of things. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Composers of genius are also inveterate strivers after perfection, are continually occupied in polishing and revising their music. Style in Singing If these companions be not the true strivers after God, who else could be called by this name?... The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh O wisdom of my Sigurd! how oft I sat with thee Thou striver, thou deliverer, thou hope of things to be! The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs Apart from these divisions, all Jain communities are differentiated into laymen and members of the order or Yatis, literally strivers. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The truth is, strivers and disputers in a church are the devil's agents, do a great deal of mischief to it, and are real plagues in it. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London But the spirit of his native songs was continually touching him and informed his melodies with a degree of emotion that we find in none of the other strivers after symphonic form. Haydn Were it in place for me to speak of men who are still strivers, I could give good reason, derived from personal touch, for the faith I put in men whose names now resound. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Strike him a horn-pipe squeakers, take thy striver, and pace her till she stew. The Scornful Lady Most laughable, perhaps, are your indefatigable strivers after eloquence. Lay Morals We may pity these ill-gifted strivers, but not pretend that their works are pleasant to behold. Impressions of Theophrastus Such Every slip, every fall, every return to selfishness is a lesson learned, an experience gained, from which a golden grain of wisdom is extracted, helping the striver toward the accomplishment of his lofty object. The Way of Peace At a still later time he was an active striver in the political agitations of his day. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe It was a bad beginning for a connection which, after nearly four hundred years, is neither as stable nor as general as the strivers after perfection could desire. China Sincerity is the marked characteristic of this simplicity in style, and it makes an impression denied to the mere striver after effect, however cunning his art. History of American Literature I fear I will never be the great lawyer—but the striver, yes, always. The Crisis — Complete I fear I will never be the great lawyer —but the striver, yes, always. The Crisis — Volume 02 He was a potent and unselfish striver for the betterment of men, and his words and example still remain an inspiration. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Much more, then, Should one upon whose priceless presence here Such issues hang, so many strivers lean, Use average circumspection at an hour So critical for us all. The Dynasts In company with other strivers after higher things, they live now in dismal barracks differing but little from a glorified Bloomsbury lodging-house. The Angel and the Author, and others A blesser have I become and a Yea-sayer: and therefore strove I long and was a striver, that I might one day get my hands free for blessing. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Are they not strivers for mastery in the greatest of combats? Laws The quiet creatures who escape mishap Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sap: A picture of the settled peace desired By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired. Poems — Volume 3 And anon, so habituated was I to the parity of those two strivers, I conceived that there might be some mistake. Seven Men Anyhow, the parity of the two strivers was now somewhat re-established. Seven Men |
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