Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debated and drew up memorandums about which course to follow, their indecision created a vacuum. None of their reckoning took into account New York Representative Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm, 47, the first black woman ever elected to Congress, announced in September that she would enter at least four primaries in quest of the Democratic nomination. She began her campaign on a characteristically scrappy note: "Other kinds of people can steer the ship of state besides white men. Regardless of the outcome, they will have to remember that a little 100-Ib. woman shook things...
...some U.S. colleges in recent years, the quest for a new president has been an acrimonious affair, with students, faculty and alumni all vying for a major voice in the selection process. But when Princeton's Robert F. Goheen announced last March that he intended to step down after 15 years as president, there was no unseemly power struggle at the nation's fourth oldest university, either onstage or behind the scenes. As one senior wrote in the alumni magazine: "Students trust the administration to come up with a qualified appointee...
Clearly the development of the epee team must be the determining factor in Harvard's quest for an Ivy fencing championship this season...
Into Weedy's claustrophobic Chicago apartment comes a mysterious stranger. Blind Jordan (Moses Gunn), who calls himself "the last of a long line of blind singers." He may be the symbol of a quest, of the black racial unconscious or of the power and primacy of blood. In a mesmerizing second-act curtain scene that builds to a crescendo of religious and erotic frenzy, Blind lordan becomes Alberta's lover. In Act III he leaves, and the two women sit in disconsolate resignation, like the heroines of Chekhov. Words of praise cannot do full justice to the play...
...indicators of what radical Catholics are thinking about. They are not substitutes for analysis of theology itself. What is significant about radical theologians like Jurgen Motlmann (a Protestant) and Johannes Metz (a Catholic) is that they rely very heavily upon the Gospel in their analysis. Hitchcock simply dismisses their quest for a God of the future as an attempt to secularize the message of the New Testament as much as possible. In fact, however, their theology of hope embodies a belief in the future which is distinctly Christian. It is based not on a belief in the flow of history...