Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subtle, intriguing and full of originality, the play recalls other writers who, steering by Freud with a list to Oedipus, showed man haunted by the ghost of his mother, and combined the pursuit of love with a longing for death. But Aiken is first and foremost a poet with an intricate set of symbols all his own. He has long been fascinated by ships, voyages, wandering and exile. No other major U.S. writer is more traditionally American than he-and yet no other gives a stronger feeling of being an explorer beyond his own land. In Ushant (TIME...
...called "course reduction" program under which some students are permitted to pursue an approved project in place of course requirements; and certainly the senior honors essay, or thesis, is the epitome of successful independent study. And even the tutorial program, at least in theory, is the independent pursuit by tutor and tutee of a mutually interesting, and mutually beneficial, program of study and discussion...
...Here was someone who believed with great sincerity that the social order was immutably secure; that the meaning of wealth . . . was that it should be translated into an environment of beauty and dignity, as its proper appanages; and that once the eye was trained to the pursuit, the appeal of great craftsmanship was irresistible, and its ownership a justification of one's position." Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., a close personal friend of Mrs. Rovensky, put it more simply: "It was one of the most beautiful houses in New York with the most exquisite things...
...Whales & Glands "[He is] gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming as to defy all present pursuit from man," wrote Herman Melville of the finback whale. "This leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race." Captain Ahab and his men felt the same way, concentrated on other, slower beasts (notably the sperm whale, a species to which Moby Dick himself belonged). But today, with steam power and steel cables, the "unconquerable Cains" of the ocean, the fin and the blue whales,* are hunted vigorously-and among the most interested hunters is modern medicine...
Victory in Texas. In pursuit of this goal, the independents have loudly opposed any increase in U.S. oil production, maintained that the stocks above ground are ample to supply Europe. Last week the independents won an all-out victory before the Texas Railroad Commission, which sets quotas for the Texas fields (source of 45% of all U.S. oil). Despite the rising European demand, the Commission refused the pleas of big oil companies, which buy much of their oil from independents, to boost production. January output will be held to 16 producing days, an average of 3.4 million bbls. daily...