While pursuing one's own self-interest is not necessarily bad, one would be a better, more righteous person if one's life was based upon following a path designed to enhance the greater good.

While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

While having a solid understanding of positional play, Polgár excels in tactics and is known for an aggressive playing style, striving to maximize the initiative and actively pursuing complications.

While he is pursuing her lover, she puts another woman in bed in her place.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

While Anson was pursuing his voyage round the world, Spain was mainly intent on the Italian policy of the King.

While pursuing his investigation, he is sidetracked by the behavior of his fellow inmates.

While Sihanouk – in an attempt to distance his country from the effects of the Second Indochina War – was pursuing a foreign policy of " extreme neutrality ", which involved association with China and toleration of North Vietnamese activity on the eastern borders, Nol remained friendly towards the United States, and indicated that he regretted the ending of US aid after 1963.

While Straube was away pursuing his legal studies at the University of Göttingen, they persuaded another young man with literary ambitions, August von Arnswaldt, who came from an upper-class Catholic family, to pretend to pay court to Annette.

While pursuing a record contract, Painter began playing is studio sessions for artists like Indigo Girls, Nanci Griffith and Jewel ( singer ).

While pursuing the Indians, the Spaniards came upon a fertile valley in 1797 which was named Los Vallecitos de San Marcos ( Little Valleys of Saint Mark ) to honor the day of discovery: April 25, “ St.

While pursuing a course of study at Boston University ( including a class taught by Howard Thurman ), he experienced an intellectual and spiritual shift.

While his father noticed his son's musical talents, Erich Kleiber nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: " What a pity the boy is musically talented ", wrote his father to a friend.

While pursuing policies of free-trade / market competition, the ideology of cooperation is respected as well.

While Burke wasn't the only one pursuing this path, not many others did so as successfully.

While pursuing other interests, Burke was also deeply involved in community work, assisting The Crippled Children's Foundation for blind and underprivileged children, while personally being responsible for more than 120 adopted children.

While pursuing a music career, Alexakis has also dabbled in acting.

While not addressing the paradox directly, Aristotle commented on the futility of pursuing pleasure.

While pursuing his masters degree at Northeastern, Jarvis worked at Raytheon in Bedford, Massachusetts, where he was involved in circuit design on the SAM-D missile.

While unconscious after the car crash, Roy has a sexual fantasy involving Lin and the Kama Sutra, and he decides to start pursuing her, much to Wang's dismay.

While pursuing his Bachelors degree at the University of the West Indies, he served as Chairman of the university ’ s External Affairs Commission, where he gained exposure to world leaders and international political thought through attendance at a number of international student fora.

While pursuing a doctorate in computer science, Metcalfe took a job with MIT's Project MAC after Harvard refused to let him be responsible for connecting the school to the brand-new ARPAnet.

While César-Auguste was pursuing his academic studies, he was, at his father's demand, also teaching privately and giving concerts.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

While before the advent of literary criticism most scholars considered the Testimonium entirely authentic, thereafter the number of supporters of full authenticity declined.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

While the American magazines Amazing Stories, with Cele Goldsmith as editor, and the respected Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction had from the very start had a leaning towards unusually literary stories, Moorcock turned that into a concerted policy.

While at the university Scott had become a friend of Adam Ferguson, the son of Professor Adam Ferguson who hosted literary salons.

While Bilbo may be seen as a literary symbol of small folk of any gender, a gender-conscious approach can help students establish notions of a " socially symbolic text " where meaning is generated by tendentious readings of a given work.

While at Harvard, Roosevelt was active in rowing, boxing, the Alpha Delta Phi literary society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and was a member of the Porcellian Club.

While he accomplished much as an important public literary and political figure with a worldwide reputation, his very creative work did decline.

While interest in Black Boy ebbed during the 1950s, a resurgence of interest in critics, Black Boy remains a vital work of historical, sociological, and literary significance whose seminal portrayal of one black man's search for self-actualization in a racist society made possible the works of such successive writers as James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison.

While the " literary battle " against Peng raged, Mao fired Yang Shangkun – director of the Party's General Office, an organ that controlled internal communications – on a series of unsubstantiated charges, installing in his stead staunch loyalist Wang Dongxing, head of Mao's security detail.

While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

While Zschokke appeared as one of the most distinguished and energetic public men in Switzerland, he still found time to cultivate his favorite literary pursuits, and it is chiefly by his numerous writings, historical and fictitious, that he became known to the world at large.

While attending the University of Toronto he won two Hart House literary prizes ( the first to win two ), for stories which were published in the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazines annual Contributor's Prize for 1985.

While Caen and other writers implied a connection with communism, there was no obvious or direct connection between the beat philosophy ( as expressed by the leading authors of this literary movement ) and the philosophy of the communist movement, other than the antipathy that both philosophies shared towards capitalism.

While Haggard does indeed portray some Africans ( such as Twala and Gagool ) in their traditional ( for Victorian literature ) literary posts as barbarians, he also presents the other side of the coin, showing some black Africans as heroes and heroines ( such as Ignosi ), and shows respect for their culture.

While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.

While at Lawrenceville, he met the future Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill ; their friendship and rivalry inspired the literary ambitions of both.

While Ingle represents a " magic realism " that harks back to Roh's ideas, the term " magic realism " in mid-20th century visual art tends to refer to work that incorporates overtly fantastic elements, somewhat in the manner of its literary counterpart.

While the Anglo-Welsh literary scene tended to be dominated by fiction in the 1930s, in the latter part of the twentieth century poetry flourished.

While none of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's symphonic poems has a Russian subject, they hold musical form and literary material in fine balance.

While in Italy on his travels Baretti established a journal of literary criticism, titled Frusta letteraria ( Literary Scourge ).

While Asher was praised for bringing cases of factitious disorder to light, critics objected variously that a literary allusion was inappropriate given the seriousness of the disease ; that its use of the Anglicized form " Munchausen " showed poor form ; that the name linked the disease with Münchhausen himself, who did not have it ; and that the name's connection to works of humor and fantasy, and to the essentially ridiculous character of the fictionalized Baron, was disrespectful to patients suffering from the disorder.