Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss for answers. The fluidity of religious choice in the U.S. had left a large part of a generation without familiar touchstones. Unhampered by family or social pressures, often raised in an atmosphere of benign tolerance-even indifference-the young especially were virtually impelled to go on their own quest for religious roots...
...have given up trying to reform the world on a massive scale. They assume, however, that a small group, moved by God, can have an impact far beyond its own numbers. Another characteristic, Marty notes, is that the new groups are expected to "deliver personal rewards. Their members quest for immediate experience...
...Right Rev. James A. Pike's lifelong spiritual quest led him gradually away from Christian orthodoxy into controversial denials of such basic dogmas as the Trinity and Virgin Birth. Toward the end of his life, he began to explore the occult. Having resigned as Episcopal Bishop of California, he experimented with mediums, and claimed ghostly contacts with his suicide son, James Jr. In January 1971, Pike died after becoming lost in the Judean desert while attempting to retrace Jesus' steps in the wilderness...
These factors, however, significant as they are, probably cannot totally account for the markedly different response this time around to the activist quest for support. Students crossing picket lines in droves this year displayed an exasperation with politics probably not seen in large scale around here since the middle sixties. There was a certain impatience, an irritation with activism of any persuasion, a dogged determination to submerge the larger issues to the imperative minutiae of Chem...
There is a fairly promising plot notion here, a little like one of Thomas Pynchon's wonderland allegories. A motley but not unlikable crew of misfits chases around rural California in quest of a greenback grail: $312,000 in cash embezzled from a talent agency years earlier. James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser barrel over the back roads towing an Airstream Land Yacht, pursued by two absurdly sinister motor homes painted deadly black and piloted by unseen, relentless drivers...