Word: quest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abé. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's finest novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
...adult society respond? Richard Nixon attempted an answer last week at General Beadle State College* in Madison, S. Dak., a tranquil campus that presented little risk of embarrassing disruption, though a few student protesters did in fact stage a peaceful mini-demonstration. The President praised youth's quest for honesty in public and private life. He defended the right to peaceful dissent. But he came down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance...
...antechamber. Inside the hall itself, huge chandeliers illumine white marble wall plaques celebrating the knights who won fame and honor in the Czarist army; shaped in stucco are Russian victories from the 15th to the 19th century. It was amid those trappings last week that the Soviet Union, in quest of another, far more difficult victory, assembled some 300 leaders of 75 Communist parties from around the world for the third postwar summit meeting in the history of the Communist movement...
...once cast Theseus as a dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...
...story still begins as generically as any Chandler. A detective is engaged to track a missing husband. The wife is alcoholic, inscrutable and intriguing. Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point...