Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Faculty: "Surely no scholar worth his salt would give a minute's notice to assisting these critics of Soc Sci 5 in their quest...
...read the movie marquees, one might conclude that the U.S. public has an insatiable appetite for the realities of the Now Generation and its quest for relevance. Yet, as TIME suggests in its cover story this week, there may be a new trend gathering momentum. It is a return to romanticism, a yearning for years past, when life was simpler and values stronger. This yearning is expressed both in the film Love Story and in the personality of its star, Ali MacGraw. Senior Editor Peter Martin and Correspondent Mary Cronin first met her in Hollywood last June. They were immediately...
...threatened to shoot a woman's baby if she refused to submit; that Conti hated Calley and wanted "to see Lieut. Calley hang, Kay elicited only denials on these points, but he did manage to shake Conti's calm. When Kay persisted about Conti's supposed quest for women on the day of the shootings, asking, "You found one, didn't you?" Conti replied: "This was later in the day, up by the river way beyond My Lai 4." The defense also underscored a discrepancy between Conti's testimony last week and his earlier statements...
...would like U.S. support-or at least neutrality-concerning his political ambitions. But one congenial encounter with Senator Fulbright is not likely to erase the liability of Ky's old image, and that, coupled with President Nixon's frequently stated respect for Thieu, probably makes his quest quite futile...
October Ferry to Gabriola, like Malcolm Lowry's generously praised Under the Volcano, is a romantic, convoluted prose journey in quest of an easeful death. It is not a completed novel, however. According to Margerie Lowry, the author's widow, this published version is her "sorting out" of numerous drafts of chapters, paragraphs and even sentences that Lowry began to write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full...