Toward that end, at the Central Park event, parents were given a 75-page "Playbook" outlining research on play and offering children ideas for playful pursuits — things that generations past did without prompting and that may evoke in today's parents feelings of recognition and nostalgia.
(And also outfox each other in pursuit of things that matter, like resources).
The contemplation and pursuit of things and stuff (words that are conveniently both abstract and material) is, after all, what continues to keep this country moving.
But he was fundamentally a bit naive, always awash with strong romantic feelings, in pursuit of things and people to batten them on to.John Sutherland's biography is a dutiful and thorough act of homage to a former colleague and friend.
Growing up as a young Canadian, I can credit an American president in large measure for my pursuit of things scientific and technical.
There's an economy and lack of ego to the organization that enables exploration without wastefulness and organically curtails the pursuit of things not in service to the story.
I realize that because of you and your intellectual curiosity, your passion for information and your often, unbridled and ruthless pursuit of things, I have benefited.
This other side, the more important side, our spiritual, philosophical, searching side is underdeveloped, left un-nurtured in the pursuit of things.
The simplest explanation, though, is that it's just another manifestation of their relentlessly rational pursuit of the sure thing.
In the pursuit of the things that matter most in life, "half measures avail us nothing," states an adage that Bruce Springsteen seems to have had in mind when he made "The River," the 1980 double album he's revisiting on his new tour, three dozen years down the line.
