Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacation for a week: the sumptuous seaside estate of New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen in Long Island's exclusive Southampton. But in another sense, the choice was apt. One of Mondale's main remaining tasks before the convention will be fund raising. His campaign spent heavily in the quest for a quick knockout, and the long ordeal left it some $2 million in debt...
...also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...
...1960s. Many of us had no cares about? Indeed no touch with, civil society, and could live our entire day as political citizens. We had enough education to ask what would be best of the world and enough time to dedicate ourselves entirely to the quest for the answer...
...experts in those fields at the time and I doubt whether Harvard would have recognized a Benjamin or an Adorno had one applied. In the end, there was no way for us to have followed our vision at Harvard or for Harvard to have followed us in our quest...
...EXPLANATION for Cuomo's lack of substance on these issues is, of course, that he is describing a hectic primary and general election campaign, a quest he describes as distasteful and degrading...