Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim [science] to be one of the most complex and far-ranging of our mental experiences ... At any one moment we may have only a precarious hold on a temporary truth, and our consciousness of this ever urges us to seek fresh truths and new under standings . . . The pursuit of science presents to the human mind an enduring challenge on an endless frontier, quite apart from the material enrichment of mankind to which it may incidentally give rise...
...well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that go with the rest of the picture about as well as a Dostoevsky passage goes with Erie Stanley Gardner...
...villain (Phil Carey) finally sprays a little lead around and rides off with the struggling heroine (Donna Reed). The hero (Rock. Hudson) gallops in pursuit, joined by the villain's brother (Leo Gordon) and an Indian who is never really explained. They corner the rat at last, but not before he gets the heroine alone in a bedroom and, as the synopsis puts it, "has his way with...
...should like parenthetically to suggest here that to my way of thinking the best avenue for making progress at this point lies through the humanities. This is, perhaps, where we have done too little. It is not just in the pursuit of the humanities that the imagination can be cultivated, but cerainly here is the essence. If ever art speaks to young people, or to any people, it must speak through the instrumentality of the imagination to the whole person," Pusey said
...college, all my wise compatriots were busy writing learned essays on world matters, communism, literature and the arts. Some were busily joining the Communist party... A few of us earned the finger of scorn from our betters since we devoted ourselves mainly to the pursuit of happiness, coeds and corn whisky and read only the sports pages. Of that group, most of them grew up to succeed. The long-skulls who wrote the learned essays for the campus paper wound up as minor clerks and press agents...