Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paragraph preceding the excerpt in question reads as follows: "In an absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...because our contacts with our compatriots are so abrasive, we seek more apartness and join a vast competitive struggle to be unusual. We search for rarer and more expensive symbols by which we can announce our uniqueness. But, as Slater says, this quest to be individual is increasingly futile since individualism itself is to blame, producing a strangely disquieted uniformity of symbol-consumers...
...nominees, will establish the early form for the 1972 nominating competition. No one doubts that, as a freshman Senator, Humphrey will be an available-but hardly compelling-contender. Muskie is easily the current favorite. Last week he flew to Illinois, back to Washington, and out again to California in quest of money and votes for fellow Democrats and exposure for himself. He still suffers from an aura of passivity. A taunt from Eugene McCarthy last week summed it up: "If Muskie had been Paul Revere, he'd have shouted during the warning ride, 'The British have been here...
...Philanthropist, produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theater, opens literally with a bang. A young playwright blows his brains out in the lodgings of a philologist. Then it settles down into a satirical, searching account of the philologist's quest for some spiritual anagram for happiness. Such ups and downs occur throughout the play. The ups are sufficiently impressive that it is hard to believe that the author, Christopher Hampton, is only 24. Yet it remains for a leading actor, Alec McCowen, to lift the production as a whole onto a plane of compelling theater...
Until recently, Italians accepted this "dictatorship of the bureaucracy" with sad fatalism. Lately, however, unhappiness has changed to anger. Since last autumn, all sorts of groups-firemen and farmers, nurses and teachers-have gone on strike, as much in rage against the government as in quest of higher pay. Now, after 20 years of study and a year of parliamentary debate, Rome is finally responding. This week, in what may eventually be regarded as the most significant Italian election in two decades, 30 million Italian voters are choosing regional councils that will transfer considerable power from the capital...