Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revolution as a paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand for the renewal of Communist life. It is, in other words, a call for the resurrection of revolutionary immortality." Mao Tse-Tung, Lifton suggests, is the embodiment of revolutionary immortality, the aged man who renews...
...honors hands down as the film's principal asset. She not only parades around in a dazzling array of black and/or white costumes, but also dominates several of the most clever scenes in the film. Whether insulting her lesbian attendant, or shrieking for fine strawberries, or flamboyantly embracing the quest for money, Lansbury brings to her part the exaggerated theatricality which came off so well in Prince's Mame. After announcing her engagement to Conrad, she takes her fat daughter aside and says: "I was thinking of pink for the bridesmaids, but really, my dear, you do discourage...
Beyond the invincible rags-to-riches theme, The Rothschilds also has ethnic appeal: it is a quest for manhood and release from the oppression that Jews suffered in the ghettos of Europe...
...quite replaced the old whistle-stop grass-roots approach to the voters. For this week's cover story on the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate in next month's elections, TIME correspondents in most domestic bureaus trailed the candidates in their quest for victory. "It's government coming to the people in a rough, rugged man-to-man manner that television hasn't succeeded in killing yet," says Senior Correspondent John Steele...
Relentless Quest. Through the bulk of the trial scenes, a tension is built up that has probably not been felt in the Broadway theater since The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Drake, to his considerable dismay, is picked to defend Millington, but he goes about it with a cool, indefatigable, relentless quest for the truth. Mrs. Hasseltine, it turns out, has indeed been attacked, but not by Millington. As Drake zeroes in on the real culprit, he also unearths evidence that the much-vaunted "honor" of the regiment is something of a mockery...