Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schlesinger struggles on a month-to-month basis to keep the New Democrat going. He relies heavily on unpaid contributors and fund-raising cocktail parties. Though the elder Schlesinger does not bankroll it, his name hardly hurts in the magazine's constant quest for operating capital. Now that McGovern rides high, the New Democrat may have an easier time making ends meet...
Willie ("The Actor") Sutton used to say that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." The same reasoning - though not the same modus operandi-is prodding foreign businessmen and government representatives toward Tokyo in quest of loans and investment money. They get a warm welcome from Japanese bankers, businessmen and government officials, who face the unusual problem of reducing an embarrassingly enormous pile of cash...
...Peckinpah's film Straw Dogs has been the subject of much criticism recently, but perhaps the strongest reaction is Garrett Epps' description of the film as "classic fascism." This phrase is clarified as "the quest for the meta-experience of violence as a validation of existence." I'm uncertain what that sentence means exactly, but it appears at least to be neutral between repression and liberation...
...school that educated DuBois and Trotter. Yes, I came to this land and its "greatest liberal institution". I came because I thought I could be a free man here, at least have more freedom that I was allotted at Drake. Nobody would stand in my way in my quest to be a free and total man. But just as so many blacks found when they came North that there is no sanctuary or preserve in this country where a black man can be free, where he can be himself and still be respected and honored for being so, I found...
...began with the proposition that individuals and institutions discharge their moral responsibilities not by avoiding contamination or controversy (for that is, in any event, a futile quest), but by seeking effective means of reducing the social harm we inflict on one another. Divestitute of corporate stocks, we found, does not advance this goal. It is not likely to change a company's behavior. Indeed, a day or so after the sale has taken place, (a) the price of the stock--management's major concern--is back to normal (the historical evidence makes this quite clear): (b) a few alert investors...