In the fall of 1988, Seinfeld received the ultimate acknowledgment for a comic: NBC called, wanting to develop a show with him.
In the ultimate acknowledgment of making it, this kid from Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia, now 63, scaled The Forbes 400 list four years running.
Still, we idealize the practice; we imagine it to be "a natural, healthy thing," in Menand's words, "a sign of vigor and purpose, a statement, about life, that we care, and that non-diarizing or, worse, failed diarizing is a confession of moral inertia, an acknowledgment, even, of the ultimate pointlessness of one's being in the world".
It's not that we imagine that we would be happier if we kept a diary; we imagine that we would be better — that diarizing is a natural, healthy thing, a sign of vigor and purpose, a statement, about life, that we care, and that non-diarizing or, worse, failed diarizing is a confession of moral inertia, an acknowledgment, even, of the ultimate pointlessness of one's being in the world.
You may accept intellectually -- or for the cameras -- that you have a "problem," but that acknowledgment can be the ultimate form of denial.
The 32-year-old called the honour the "ultimate accolade", adding he felt it was acknowledgment not only of his achievements in 2012 but over the past 12 years.
In addition to an acknowledgment at the reception, you could take the ultimate gracious step and ask the groom's parents to be co-hosts at the wedding with you.
The ultimate question to be determined, therefore, is whether the disclaimer contained in Fairbanks' "acknowledgment of order" materially altered the agreement between the parties pursuant to sec.
Consciousness is the ultimate.
God: the ultimate chiropractor.
