Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning there had been the feeling that Bob Harrison wasn't really the man to be Harvard basketball coach. Somehow, he always seemed out of place in the Cambridge arena. His volatile outbursts on and off the court, his insistent quest for ballplayers "who will run through walls for you," his attempts to bring big-time recruiting and big-time basketball to Harvard always left most people a little uneasy. Not because his goals in themselves were incompatible with the Harvard atmosphere, but because Harrison never seemed quite the man capable of pulling them...
...Thank goodness that we Americans have a modern-day Robin Hood Congressman patrolling the Administration's activities [Feb. 19]. Wouldn't the founders of the Constitution marvel at the integrity of Senator Sam Ervin, in his bold quest to keep the Administration honest? I'm glad to see a conservative Senator call the President down. Maybe people will pay a little more attention, instead of just writing it off as another radical maneuver to defame the Administration. With the support of the people and other congressional colleagues, maybe Senator Ervin can reinstate the Constitution's concept...
China continues its quest for new contacts and alignments throughout the world. Last week, the Chinese welcomed the inaugural flight to Peking by Ethiopian Airlines. TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan was aboard and duly found himself face to face with Premier Chou En-lai at the Great Hall of the People. His report...
...celebrated 1963 novel V. That book presented Herbert Stencil, Benny Profane and the Whole Sick Crew. It encompassed alligator hunts in the sewers of New York; a native uprising in South West Africa in 1922; the siege of Malta, circa 1942. The whole thing was wrapped in an unresolved quest for V, a woman who never revealed herself...
Much as we need radical efforts at disproving and dispelling the erroneous assumptions of psychoanalytic theory, Sherfey has presented us with what is least helpful in the quest for sexual enlightenmnet--a counter-mythology. Her statements are for the most part purely speculative and overtly feminist, and they contribute only to prolonging, rather than resolving, a tedious battle of the sexes. In the effort to proceed from sexual politics and polemics to knowledge, Sherfey's tack is a dead...