Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is no evidence any where of disloyalty on Franklin's part, only a compendium of examples of guilt by association with agents before and during the Revolution. But as a contemporary analogy, Henry Kissinger has surely had to deal with the same sort of men in his quest for peace in Viet Nam. At worst, Franklin was perhaps guilty-as statesmen sometimes are-of using rather shabby means to achieve estimable ends...
...Walzer, with the Calvinist insistence on moral commitment to the community, individual integrity and truthful "plain speaking," is clear expression of the rise of sincerity. The arts followed suit, with narrative elucidating the individual self in autobiography and the novel. Finally, psychoanalysis emerged as a late phase of this quest of the whole, sincere self--being a narrative technique whereby the individual's unity with his past and his adjustment to society is restored...
...Diderot and Hegel alike accused society of encouraging flattery, dissimulation, and schizoid from one's own true self. A darker search arose for the "authentic" self, a search which implicitly denounced the coercion of society and disbelieved the wholeness of self. While the arts took new inspiration from this quest, they too came under suspicious scrutiny, Emma Bovary and Nietache's "Culture-Philistine" are both testimony to the seductive inauthenticity of a life modeled on the directives of art. The institution of literary narration itself falls into disrepute, and the novel must radically reject both psychology and history...
...musical paradox: Instead of rushing eagerly to cherish us and foster us. They all prefer this melancholy literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...
...newly-formed Crimson table tennis team opens its quest for the Ivy crown today against MIT at 2 p.m. in the Kirkland House Common Room...