Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerate less the anticommunity actions of the Communist bloc. "Those nations should be made to feel the weight of public disapproval . . . Unless the U.N. becomes, for all, an instrumentality of peace through justice and law, then some alternative must be found." ¶ Intensify within the U.N. General Assembly the quest-"in my view, sometimes overlooked"-for genuine moral judgments rather than "feudal" voting by "blocs," geographical regions or "haves versus havenots." ¶Spread rule of law inside the free world by greater use of the International Court of Justice. "We are closely examining the question of our own relationship...
...actors, significantly named Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition. The object of the knight's quest is to know--not just to hope or trust, but to know--whether there is "something beyond the darkness" before he dies...
...recent changes in the method of Harvard education are clear evidences of the strength of this academic force. The first is the growing tendency of undergraduate courses to fatten up their reading lists without any clear motive beyond a quest for scholastic respectability. The result of this tendency can be seen most forcibly in the crowds in Lamont, struggling to complete reading assignments which demand too much of both a student's time and capacity. The second change is in the new regulations on Honors study which require of every sophomore a much stiffer tutorial program than had previously existed...
Sometimes, in dogged quest for the meaning behind the meaning, the Washington press corps finds top-headline news where there is none. This happened at Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference last week, and before the over-interpretation and overextension were through, the press-created fantasy had reverberated round the world...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. With Apollonian clarity and Dionysian passion, Greece's late, famed man of letters challenges Homer with a sequel that is a modern epic of adventure, eroticism, and the universal quest for self-knowledge...