Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was little ennobling in the broad shape of human affairs in 1973. Mankind progressed haltingly, if at all, in its tortuous quest for greater wisdom in the conduct of international relations and greater brotherhood among individuals. The U.S. continued to improve relations with China and clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely...
...Nelson A. Rockefeller steps down today as governor of New York, that state will lose as its leader the man responsible for one of the bloodiest incidents of U.S. domestic repression in this century. Rockefeller, whose Commission on Critical Choices for America is the latest step in his endless quest for the presidency, broke off negotiations two years ago between the state and the prisoners who had revolted to protest conditions at Attica State Prison. His command to state troopers to surround and retake the fortress led to the unnecessary deaths of 37 prisoners and guards...
...never been a secret that some American reporters working abroad maintain symbiotic relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency. In the shared quest for fresh information, correspondents and CIA agents have been known to swap tips to their mutual benefit. Recently, the Washington Star-News revealed that some 40 U.S. journalists-mostly freelance writers and "stringers" who work part-time for one or more employers-have been on the CIA payroll as undercover informants. Some are full-time agents using journalism as a cover. Only five of the 40 were said to be regular staffers for large news organizations. Still...
...good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis' exuberant jazz-age Cubism. Convincingly, O'Doherty sees Pollock's drip paintings as a very American frontier quest for raw sensation-a kind of painter's version of the Great American Novel...
...retake it. Troell does not blame the immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that won a new one. As Karl-Oscar grows older, he prospers, moving from sodhouse to log cabin, to frame house, and finally to a fine big farmhouse dress...