Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Experts answer almost everything you ever wanted to know about energy...
...joined him late in the lifelong search that took him throughout the world and into the realm of hallucinogenic drugs. Together they tried everything, enjoying the experiences but never satisfying themselves. Not until Debra discovered Buddhism did they pause long enought to consider it, above their other choices, the answer. And though it did't solve all their problems--marital or emotional-- it brought some amount of order, and what Matthiessen believes is peace and understanding...
Even though Matthiessen believes that the answer to being his raison d'etre, is locked up within himself, at his core. He has to search to find that inner self, to "come home." The expedition is a search, his meditations are a search, even his writing a book is a search. None of the three take place in the present. The expedition was planned and executed. It didn't just emerge; it wasn't just there. Nor is meditation anything more than an active pursuit of self-knowledge, while writing is looking backwards. Putting pen to paper involves memory...
When you ask Douglas W. Bryant what he does for a living, he hesitates for a couple of moments, smiles and stares at his feet. You sit back and wait, almost nervously, not wanting to push for an answer; his shyness or modesty or whatever you want to call it is contagious. Then he looks up from his desk in the midst of his Widener Library office and searches slowly and carefully for the answer, and his response is characteristically low-key. Bryant, who has more titles following his name than probably anyone else at Harvard, doesn't push himself...
...Chance the irony is that it is man's own civilization which has become so complex as to be beyond his understanding. Yet John succeeds in uncovering the mystery, and the author's resolution appears to be cogent enough to leave us feeling smugly satisfied that we know the answer. Are we willing to believe Lem, or should we suspect that he is gulling us into accepting his artifice in order to satisfy our expectation of a final solution and our need for one as well? It is not at all clear, for the novel's realism is so intense...