Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stewed Crow. Interwoven with this main theme is one more private to White: the girl who was left behind wins the lost cause. Laura Trevelyan is a spinster, a philosopher among the Sydney Philistines. She loves Voss enough to know the real nature of his quest and that she is, in spirit, "the sole survivor" of his doomed expedition. Amid the crudity of a still colonial society, the quality of a Laura Trevelyan will prevail, White seems...
This week the Tufts Arena offers their best production so far this season, a splendid rendition of "Sing Out, Sweet Land." Walter Kerr's allegorical eroica, extolling man's universal quest for freedom, couched in specific American terms, is a kind of musical biography of the American idiom. A cavalcade of American folk songs from the colonial days to Gershwin interspersed with a narrative biography of American history chronicle the development of the American idiom...
...American Catholic has regarded himself as a' member of a "beleaguered community" constantly on the defensive. "It is not too extreme to say that in many cases [Catholic] classes of philosophy are used to form defending debaters of Catholic positions. Philosophy is not envisaged as a personal quest for truth but rather as a predigested apologetic of religious belief. Young men, firm in their faith and lovers of debate, esteem this highly, but they escape the encounter with scholarship...
Over and over Rumplestiltskin was induced to believe that his intellect could somehow do the impossible. Every discipline followed the assumption of University educators; that men could be made into what they were not by trying hard enough. The scientists were perhaps more honest about their quest than others, since they continually narrowed the questions they asked in order to make the answers they could get sufficient unto the occasion, until finally they were no longer asking questions about which anybody cared, and so managed to avoid explicit claims which they could not fulfill...
...interest in religion with a concern for getting over the "entirely unacceptable notion that faith is a matter of indifference." He affirmed that faith is "something given, not won" and called for inquiry into what it is, a study of its manifestations in history and religious literature, and a quest for its "life-giving influence...