Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King's Indian, the title story, is a much longer and more complex pastiche. Shanghaied aboard a whaling ship, young Jonathan Upchurch is forced to play Ishmael to a crazed Ahab of a captain. The ship's quest is not for a white whale but, as Upchurch slowly learns, for the mysterious duplicate of itself, reported sunk on its last voyage. Is he surrounded, then, by ghosts? Or is the captain out to smash determinism by carrying his ship safely past a meeting with its foreshadowed self? As adventures and mysteries multiply, a third possibility begins to appear...
...profits continue to gush into the Persian Gulf nations, other governments, too, are beginning to make money from the stepped-up quest for oil. In the North Sea, explorations have so far turned up more than 20 billion bbl. of proven reserves, nearly 4% of the world total. Norway alone has proven reserves of about 6 billion bbl., and experts believe that the potential is at least twice that amount. Surprisingly, though, Norway is approaching its new riches with Scandinavian solemnity. Government planners predict that by 1981, oil output will pump more than $2.7 billion in yearly revenues into...
...Yardlings led by eight at the half, and widened the margin at the outset of the final period in their quest to avenge last year's defeat by Worcester...
...Ryan of the National Right to Life Committee accused Rockefeller of another kind of massacre. "In his quest for population control at any cost," she complained, "he has helped to bring about the destruction of a whole segment of our society: the unborn...
Daniel Buren's is a more curious case. In the past few years, Buren's enterprise, or gesture, has been to make striped panels that look exactly like awning cloth and hang them anonymously in public places. "Form, art's quest throughout the centuries," writes Buren, 36, "becomes a matter of no interest, superfluous and anachronistic. Of course then art is bound to disappear . . . Creating, producing, is henceforth of only relative interest, and the creator, the producer, no longer has any reason to glorify 'his' product...