Word: quested
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...these reasons, the quest for imparting a discipline should not obscure the need to foster still more basic intellectual skills and qualities of mind. Such skills and qualities will be useful to a student in almost any occupation and in innumerable contexts quite outside his (or her) career. Their pervasive utility suggests that they will endure longer than most other forms of learning and will provide the college with an essential means for coming to grips with the problem of how to provide students with something of lasting value in a changing, unpredictable world...
...behemoth under the boards, U.C.L.A. shook off an early case of the jitters and coasted to an 82-63 victory. Afterward, the game ball was carried off for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The pressure off, Wooden and his charges returned to their quest for an even more remarkable record: a seventh straight national championship...
Medieval Fury. But for too many in the province, life can never again be normal. Not for the 11-year-old Londonderry boy, just back from a futile trip to Boston in a quest to regain his eyesight, which was destroyed by one of the British army's six-inch-long rubber antiriot bullets. Not for the 22-year-old Catholic girl maimed on the eve of her wedding when the Irish Republican Army bombed a Belfast restaurant. "Two legs gone, one arm sheared off, an eye lost, all in one young female body," said Dublin's Irish...
Though Scott's critics scoff at such plans as having team members vote on starting lineups, there is anything but anarchy on the playing fields of Oberlin. In fact, Scott's quest for "excellence without dehumanizing the athlete" seems to be succeeding. Attendance at exercise classes has more than doubled, and over 30 students are now majoring in phys. ed., a department that was all but ignored in recent years. This season the football team won two of nine games with a lame-duck coach, but Scott claims little credit for the improvement. He agrees with President Fuller...
...Imagination" and "soul" are words that occur again and again in these essays. They are still alive, if not always well, in the Third World, Paz believes, and his primary concern is to save them. In his quest for allies he ranges far and wide. He examines fellow Latin American artists like Pablo Neruda (whom he calls "a poetic continent") and the film maker Luis Bunuel (whom he compares to Goya). He looks to Marshall McLuhan, then looks away from him -as a "prophet," alas, only of Madison Avenue...