Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed a spellbinder, a power ful, unrelenting tragedy of sex. Berg wrote the opera in the early '30s and shaped his libretto from two plays by the great German Dramatist Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), who was obsessed by the fury, the brevity and the desolation of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. As Wedekind's translator put it, "he dealt in 'the hellish drive out of which no joy remains alive.' " In both of his plays, Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Wedekind centered this hell in a promiscuous...
...Anglican Communion is dying. In a sense, nothing would please its leaders more. For by virtue of its doctrinal comprehensiveness, Anglicanism has also been traditionally an exceedingly ecumenical faith-even willing to surrender its own independence for the sake of God's "Coming Great Church." In the pursuit of spiritual brotherhood, many Anglican churches have ironed out some form of intercommunion with a faith outside the fellowship of Canterbury-the Church of England with the Church of Sweden, for example, and U.S. Episcopalians with the Philippine Independent Church...
...cold war (see THE WORLD). As the President said, it is by no means "the millennium." But it carries in its brief and direct text some hope that it may become, in the President's words, "a historic mark in man's age-old pursuit of peace...
...next four hours, patrol cars howled through the streets of Caracas in pursuit of patrol cars. The army sent troops and armored cars to join the fight; cops by the hundreds chased around frantically trying to sort out friend from foe. An order went out to legitimate police to wrap white handkerchiefs around their heads. That only made them better targets. Rumors swept Caracas that the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) had attacked the prison and freed all 800 inmates. The report was proved false, but the FALN rejoiced in the publicity and Communist terrorists...
...Pursuit of the truth in an atmosphere of freedom is the business of a university. This is an elementary point; it should not be necessary to defend it, especially on the pages of a publication under the auspices of Harvard University. The freedom to hear and discuss all point of view has so long been part of the air we breathe at Harvard that it comes as a profound shock to find that the Summer School does not uphold that freedom...