Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having been co-opted by street-corner mystics and turned into an advance man for the love generation, Hermann Hesse is much the worse for wear. The studiously mystical German novelist liked to ruminate about higher realities, exalted consciousness, spiritual quest-all topics that have become fashionable since his death...
...want to make just another movie," he says. "I want to make trouble. I want to say in comic terms, 'J'accuse. 'We dealt with bigotry in Saddles and with neo-Fascism in Producers. Underneath the comedy in Frankenstein, the doctor is undertaking the quest to defeat death-to challenge God. Our monster lives, therefore he wants love too. He's really very touching in his lonely misery." Is Brooks serious about all this? Maybe, but his cure for the poor fellow's isolation is to replace those circa-Karloff lug bolts in his neck...
Harvard hockey fans, undaunted by their team's two vacation losses, will display their faith in the Crimson's quest for the Ivy League title tonight by packing sold-out Watson Rink to cheer on the Crimson against Ivy arch-rival Cornell...
...intrigue involving the box man's tentative release from his lonely enclosure, a release finally procured by a woman's love, which ultimately becomes yet another box. Within this wider story Abe presents case-studies showing that violence creates its own box, that the suicidal impulse, the frenzied quest for total release from one's box only creates an eternal box, and even that the voyeuristic act of peering from one's box at others must result in a greater recognition of their perverse awareness...
...quest for universality in music, Bernstein begins with monogenesis, the idea that all language evolved from a common origin. As a metaphor, monogenesis lies behind the Biblical Tower of Babel myth, and as a general principle it lies behind a century of serious philology, but it is not an idea with any scientific foundation--linguists believe the dozen or so major language families to be unrelated. Still, it reminds Bernstein of a discovery he made when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn...