Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate am Rhine. The quest for the answer exploded last week in a Watergate-style scandal that aroused deep-seated German concern other than that of nuclear annihilation. The weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel disclosed that agents of the Verfassungsschutz (federal office for the protection of the constitution) had broken into Traube's home near Cologne last year, photographed his letters and documents and planted a bugging device. After failing to discover any guilt in his associations, the agents surreptitiously entered Traube's house a second time two months later to remove the bug. These legally questionable acts evoked...
...strikingly in evidence in two of the essays in Spiritus Mundi, both of which condemn student radicals of the 1960s for their attack on educational processes. In "The University and the Personal Life," Frye places student unrest in the tradition of American anarchism, categorizing it primarily as a religious quest rather than a social movement. What he objects to most is the anti-intellectualism of the protesters, their refusal to appeal to "reason or experience or history or anything except emotional reflex." For Frye, the validity of the university as an institution is beyond question; there is something pure about...
...captain Jeff Campbell doubled or tripled in every meet, sacrificing his own opportunities for individual achievement to benefit the team. At the IC4As he passed up the finals in one of his individual events to run in the two-mile relay and help his cohorts in their unsuccessful quest to qualify for the Nationals...
...electronics wizard, Lancelot has no trouble assembling incriminating video tapes. But he wants more than to film Margot flagrante delicto. Lancelot is on the trail of evil and an affirmation that it still has meaning. Says he: " 'Evil' is surely the clue to this age, the only quest appropriate to the age. For everything and everyone's either wonderful or sick and nothing is evil...
...those thoughts are probably secondary to Harvard's quest for a spot in the top four and home ice advantage for the first round of the ECAC post-season blood-letting. Combined with B.U.'s victory over Yale on Saturday and 6-1 shocker over top-ranked Clarkson on Sunday, Harvard's loss to the Quakers probably dropped the Crimson out of the running...