Word: quested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before the embattled farmers started shooting at Concord, bored British society was looking with almost unseemly eagerness for a noble savage. Rousseau had written that as civilization progresses, morals decline. Advanced Britons had reached the point where they were looking almost anywhere outside themselves for an ideal. Their quest turned up answers perfectly familiar today-from the psychiatric to the proletarian. Before Omai's advent there had been inspected, briefly accepted, abruptly rejected...
However, this quest for music-off-the-beaten-track lends a certain amount of zest to concert-going. Mitropoulous himself would not pretend that the Mahler First is anything but a very bad symphony. Nobody, even the most ardent Mahlerite, imagines that there is anything important or cosmic about the first movement, for example, which goes on for about fifteen-minutes with little woodland chirpings and bleatings of the clarinet, and launches into a phony folk-lore theme which, after muddling around soupily in the horns through another ten minutes, finally expires in sheer exhaustion. Nobody, I say, could honestly...
This Is the Schoolroom, in short, is one more of those novels in which a young man tells of his education, his quest for a meaning and a course in life. If the young man is intelligent enough or alive enough, such a story can have extraordinary power and significance. Since Marcus Hendrycks is not, his tale is rather a social document than a work of thought...
...human race has apparently set out to sound all the depths and shoals of the cosmic environment. It is a wonderful and a fearful quest...
...Treasure iii Leagues S.W." Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies. Many treasures are hunted, few are found. But their seekers are slaves to the quest as gamblers to the wheel, hopheads to the needle...