Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pageant of intense undergraduate activity has developed to clash with the older traditions of Harvard--the quiet that lingers in the Yard and the contemplative detachment of "Tory Row." And there is evidence that the leisurely quest for the constructive relaxation of extra-curricular activities has been transformed into an intense drive for the kind of competence that has always been held more characteristic of "the business world...
...Jesus there should have been." Christianity is the greatest of all poems, much of human history going into the making. Fisher believes the problem to be eternal, basic to the nature of man. The novel ends with Damon's son deciding, "For this was a man's quest, this search for God. He suspected that the time would come, someday, when he would have to rise...
...another sense, the U.S. had only just begun its quest for Middle Eastern stability, and the Eisenhower Doctrine was primarily the shield. "I was definitely pleased," the President said, hailing the passage of the doctrine. Then he added: "I merely would point this out: that from the beginning, the Secretary of State and I have insisted that the mere solution of one or two preliminary phases of the problems did not solve the underlying causes...
...salvation. Yet in this novel there are clues of something else to come. The hero's name, Jean-Baptiste, is intriguing as a wordplay on John the Baptist, the herald of Christ's coming. The Fall is too obviously the novel of a man in mid-quest to be Camus' last word. Perhaps both book and author are best described by the late French Jesuit Pierre Rousselot, who once wrote: "The human soul has not found itself; it is looking for itself; and this kind of absence of itself from itself is the essential sign signifying...
...quest and doom of the intellectual appears...