Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money market, and the real threat of a capital shortage, lies a year or so away, when the economy picks up added steam and corporations begin borrowing more heavily. But that is hardly a reason for postponing public debate over how to head off a crisis; in its quest for ways to spur more saving and investment, Government would do well to begin by devoting greater attention to increasing the rates of return that capital-short industries like utilities can earn. In the long run, perhaps nothing will channel needed capital into worthwhile investments any better than tax measures...
...Emily's love which, in the end, holds them all together--her ability to nurture rather than Gerald's ability to organize. Lessing's first major character Martha Quest, whom she followed through a series of five novels (the Children of Violence series), had no such ability to love, and in her struggle to be independent abandoned her child to a boorish husband. Perhaps Lessing has mellowed now: perhaps Emily and the narrator are closer to Margaret, the earth mother figure of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, and, like her, can end with "Only connect...
Sharp's idea of transmitting this hard-to-pin-down moral environment is to write in punchlines that don't follow: and while Hackman's Moseby is asking incessant questions in his quest his subjects usually answer in strange, unhelpful ways. Sharp has rigged it, inevitably, so the women in the story are the most mysteriously evasive--when there are three or four of these mermaids tossing their hair the technique becomes sexist and tiresome. Worse yet are the strivings for novelistic originality. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" asks a character out of the blue. "Why?" queries Hackman...
...that place. People swim in this movie, too slippery and illogical for Moseby's chess game. One quick scene in the gigantic tank of a pro-football game is perfect--a dark walk through the tunnel into the bleary, intoxicating stadium--the roar and immensity give Moseby's quest all the more futility...
...remain a Byproduct Nation. We must have the courage to be concrete, to specify our projects while still refusing to fence in our national hopes. We must refuse the so lace of ideology and crusading dogmas. While others talk of National Purpose, we must remain a nation in quest, believing that for us there can only be national purposes, that these are newly revealed to every generation, and that our efforts must be devoted no less to discovery than to fulfillment. We must not forget our oldest tradition - that our New World is a reservoir of mystery and of promise...