Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tlas sided with the army, throwing his weight behind President Hafez Assad in the latter's 1970 coup. Since then he and Assad have concentrated their attention on improving the quality of Syria's armed forces, with Tlas traveling to Moscow, Peking and, most recently, Hanoi in quest of military equipment and advice...
...poems created by any poet that finally come to rest in the collective mind, heart and memory as the permanent possession of an age. Auden has written his share. But his work is also fascinating because it traces the course of a notably determined and characteristically 20th century quest...
...That quest began for Auden with the belief that through science and poetry, man and society could be known and shown for what they are-and both vastly improved. When this happened, what he called "the just city" might be established. The hope was hopelessly ambiguous from the start. Auden was born in 1907 in Yorkshire and grew up near Birmingham. His father, who served as Birmingham's school medical officer, used to stud his lectures on such public-health needs as flush toilets with quotations from Vergil, a blending of the classical and clinical that often marked Auden...
...political quest for the just city began to take a decisive turn-back from politics to what had always been its central problems, guilt, anxiety and individual man. A poetic drama, The Ascent of F6, written with Isherwood, was crucial. It began as a political satire and ended up as a sort of medieval mystery play. "One saw oneself in the presence of evil-from the beginning," Auden would later explain, "and one realized how difficult it would be to change...
...what is in one sense his quest for humanity, Nicky is aided by two good examples--his father and his best friend Bruce, neither of whom are very prominent in the book. The father is full of quiet, sensible advice that bespeaks of an inner wisdom. As for Bruce, after his funeral, his unpopular next door neighbor speaks to his mother: He was always real nice to me, talking to me and listening to me when you don't think he had to. You know how a lot of people sort of like him thought I was just some kind...