Although he was impressed by America's material accomplishments (and confessed to liking "Gone with the Wind"), he felt an abiding contempt for the materialism, racism and sexual promiscuity of what he saw as a debased Western culture.
Fleeing family in pursuit of a business career just after the end of World War II, he wound up 1,100, 2,000, 2,500 and 5,500 miles away, where, driven by the need to surpass the lower-middle-class material accomplishments of his own father, for whom he had great contempt as well as moderate affection, he established an influential media empire.
What if these few short words (whether written by journalists for the famous and celebrated, or by loving family members as a paid tribute) were focused more on what the deceased had done to make the planet a better place, than their more material accomplishments?
The paper makes clear the physical and documentary labour necessary in creating bio-objectification, and provides an important illustration of how bio-objectification can be undone as the socio-material accomplishments that support it are either left under-maintained over an extended period of time, or swiftly disrupted for example though biobank closure.
That he did not write much of the material makes his accomplishment no less singular".
The very fact of death made me doubt the utility of all I did, especially material or external accomplishments, especially and even when others held those things out as possessing the utmost importance.
As a display of technical accomplishment and material beauty, it is breathtaking.
However contestable this may sometimes be, it is impossible to refuse to recognize the importance of request, whether it be for a material or spiritual gift or accomplishment.
We park near the office, and Emerson, who has supervised the planting of trees on reclaimed mine land, hands me some P.R. material touting Arch's environmental accomplishments.
The central couple, professionally ambitious and proud of their accomplishments, live in material comfort and close to power, juggling the demands of work and domesticity in the usual ways.
