Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters, Simonson's remarks reflected a troubled quest for proper justice in an era notable both for its sexual liberation and the use of sex as a sales device. But feminists were outraged. Women picketed the courthouse and circulated petitions, signed by over 35,000 voters, demanding Simonson's removal. Paul Soglin, the liberal mayor of Madison, was also critical. Said he: "Regardless of community standards, under no conditions can a sexual assault or rape be considered normal...
...tradition of little girls, Amy loves mysteries, and the White House comes equipped with a secret stairway -you push a special panel in the wall -and its own ghost. In quest of the Lincoln ghost, Amy and Classmate Claudia Sanchez, daughter of a Chilean embassy cook, spent a night in the huge Lincoln bed, while Mary Fitzpatrick, the reprieved prisoner who is Amy's nurse, slept on a pallet on the floor. And, grins Rosalynn, "of course they heard the ghost...
Ochs' chosen instrument in his quest for excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...becomes Pope, the books of Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, are little read. But his life as self-styled genius and unrepentant poseur continues to tantalize. In the 1930s, two decades after Rolfe's death, A.J.A. Symons made him the subject of a celebrated literary whodunit. The Quest for Corvo. In 1971, Donald Weeks wrote a more conventional biography, Corvo. Miriam Benkovitz, an English professor at Skidmore College, offers a new and exhaustive study. Her style is academic and sometimes awkward, but the Baron radiates through it with a satanic intensity...
...inspired is worth less to a playwright than to be obsessed. With Eugene O'Neill, it is the isolated torment of the soul's loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...