Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's reluctance to enter any anti-management fray may have stemmed from more than the quest for "academic" neutrality. The Austin Committee also reported on potential conflicts of interest which the treasurer could face...
...today's quest for relevance undergraduate students who plan to enter law are so impatient to make a contribution that they are missing their greatest, if not their only, opportunity to acquire the tools necessary to serve effectively in either a governmental or private executive capacity. In proportion to the number of inhabitants of this country, important policy decisions are made by very few people. There is little spreading of responsibility, and while many people comment on policy, teach proper policy, or criticize policy, the policy itself is made by a limited group, who are over-worked...
While talking to law students in the interviews I discovered that the quest for relevance has led to a rejection of literary material written before 1900. The quality of literature written in earlier times is certainly not inherently better than material being turned out today; however, earlier literature is a known quantity, while more recent material has yet to be evaluated. Fully 95 per cent of all human problems which confront the practicing lawyer are not unique to the twentieth century. The great beauty of English literature between 1550 and 1900, and the Greek and Latin classics, is its limited...
...been trying since his tenure began to turn attention to educational reform. His focus here on nostalgia for the bygone days when students and faculty united in a quest for intellectual breadth was something different, however...
Despite such criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among the tenuous and sometimes contradictory definitions of God, man and universe. The problem for Americans and others caught up in the West's renewed search for the sacred will be just how and where to strike a fruitful balance: between reason and imagination, between discipline and intuition, between...