Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambition should easily survive two Reagan terms. After eight years of loyal if inglorious service as Vice President, Bush would have a strong claim on the top spot of the 1988 Republican ticket. He would be 64, an age we used to consider too advanced for starting a presidential quest, much less enduring the rigors of four years in office...
University officials are instrumental in creating atmosphere, depending on the tone they set when dealing with a whole variety of issues racial tensions can abound or dissipate. Unfortunately, the University is perceived as patronizing or ignoring Blacks in their quest for social acceptance. The University's refusal to divest itself of stock in companies operating in South Africa, despite mushrooming resentment among students both Black and white, seems pointedly insensitive. Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses' refusal to organize an officially recognized Third World orientation during Freshman Week has aroused considerable wrath among numerous minority groups...
...ethnic groups in American politics ethnic-bloc voting is characterized by several developmental stages. Ethnic-bloc voting emerges with the formative stage of an ethnic group's quest for political efficacy and for parity of political status--a quest often occurring simultaneously with a bid for parity of social status. As the formative stage is realized, ethnic-bloc voting atenuates. It gives way, sometimes slowly sometimes not, to a greater political maturity, characterized by trans-ethnic voting choices and issue-oriented voting...
...while Tuchman's approach reveals a shift in her philosophy, her conclusions reflect her unwavering belief that "history is people--bizarre is not inexplicable." She finds the answers to her quest, not in institutions or social forces, but if the failings and foibles of the individual. Her final conclusion reflects both a cynical understanding of human nature, and an ultimate faith in the tenacity of mankind. "I don't think we're going to improve, but we're going to muddle through...
...writers who still believed in the possibility of the Great American Novel. This notion always flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness he could bear to his age and its possible consequences...