Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drift of Sherman Yellen's book is that Henry divorced or beheaded wives in quest of a male heir. Actually, there was a son, Edward VI, who died at the age of 16. Scanting the versatile Renaissance man, Yellen paints the portrait of a male chauvinist executioner...
...OVERALL PICTURE of FBI activities that emerges from these documents is one of flagrant disregard for legality and constitutional guarantees in its quest to suppress what Hoover considered dangerous subversion. None of the groups against which COINTELPRO was directed has engaged in illegal activities. In fact, it was precisely the legal activities of the SWP which drove the FBI to attack them; Hoover ordered a disruption campaign against the SWP because...
...amusement. Deep within the volume are less convincing "proofs" of this attitude. The legends of Snow White, of Hansel and Gretel, of Goldilocks are parsed for every psychological nuance. Here the reader leaves the nursery for what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying, from their natural nooks, upon the love life of their parents." To Bettelheim, Goldilocks' peek into the bears' house "evokes associations to the child's desire...
Down below, in the open-air boxes, the governor of New York, sat with ten of his twelve children. Within a week he would allow Patrick Cunningham to proceed with his quest to get himself re-elected state Democratic chairman, legal problems aside. There were those who implied that Governor Carey's decision was affected by the fact that Cunningham's counsel in a key legal fight was Edward Bennett Williams, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and close friend of Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss...
...Metaissue." "People are very much searching for someone they can believe in," observes Joe Grandmaison, the 1972 McGovern campaign director in New Hampshire. This quest puts a new emphasis on intangible qualities of leadership. Contends George Reedy, the astute former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson: "The real issues in the campaign are spiritual rather than economic and social. The average American today is lost. He doesn't know what to believe, where to go, what to do." Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist calls these spiritual concerns collectively a "metaissue-an issue above issues. It involves tone, honesty, decency, truthfulness...