Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel Lolita traced the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American nymphet by a middle-aged European émigré named Humbert Humbert, and the rather Electrafying relationship that developed between the stepfather-seducer and the child-mistress. The book's last scene is the movie's first. Moving numbly through a Hollywood-style mansion full of bottles, harps, glasses, statues, bot tles, grand pianos, glasses, sheeted furniture and an incongruous pingpong table...
...only joined in ascribing the market's latest downfall to the steel crisis, but were unanimous on another point: over the past few years stock prices have been driven to unrealistic highs by the ordinary investor's infatuated belief in capital growth. In the single-minded pursuit of growth, declares David L. Babson of Boston's David L. Babson Management, investors "have been borrowing against the future.' Echoed Economist John Langum of Chicago's Business Research Corp.: "The stock market has for some two to three years been discounting not only the future...
THIS week's cover story on Billie Sol Estes brings out old-fashioned journalistic instincts-the pursuit of shenanigans, resolving contradictory stories-that all journalists, ourselves included, take professional delight in. We think we have something extra to bring to the story in the accumulation of fascinating detail that a television audience would not be expected to sit still for, and in the deployment of correspondents to many cities, weaving together their separate strands in a way that individual newspapers cannot match...
This brings us back to Harvard: Harvard's genius, I think, is a critical one. When her teachers and students are joined in their pursuit of the past--and the pursuit is endless as the past is inexhaustible--then Harvard is true to herself. Harvard flags when her teachers are tired and her students indifferent--when both have lost the one secret to critical success: I mean the nostalgia for a work of art, the hunger of one's literary birthright...
...pursuit of Daniel is one of the most influential politicians in Texas, although he has never before run for major public office: John Connally, 45. Fort Worth lawyer and oil man. who plotted strategy for Lyndon Johnson's campaigns from 1937 right through the 1960 convention. Connally quit as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor. Backed by 26 Texas dailies and a gusher of contributions, Conservative Connally is staging the most intensive campaign of any of the candidates: in two months he has traveled more than 22,000 miles, made 43 major speeches, appeared on two statewide...