Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, Op-Ed's quest for originality sometimes falls flat. Getting Britain's Racist M.P. Enoch Powell, whose political knowledge of Viet Nam is at best limited, to write about U.S. foreign policy did not make much sense journalistically. On other occasions, the Times seems to encourage those who disagree with its editorial policy to put their worst foot forward. Superhawks propounding a pro-military Viet Nam policy on the page, for instance, tend either to be poor writers or to propose badly organized arguments...
...quest of emotional closeness, the couple took off most of their clothes and listened respectfully to the voice coming from their record player: "Take turns listening to the insides of each other's stomachs," it counseled. The voice was that of Atlanta Psychiatrist Thomas P. Malone, developer of "the Marriage Enrichment Program," a sensitivity-training course designed for the use of a couple in the privacy of their home...
...female's fate is to become deformed and debilitated by the destructive action of energy upon the self, because she is deprived of scope and contacts with external reality upon which to exercise herself.... It is exactly the element of quest in her sexuality which the female is taught to deny. She is not only taught to deny it in her sexual contacts, but... in all her contacts, from infancy onward, so that when she becomes aware of her sex the pattern has sufficient force of inertia to prevail over new forms of desire and curiosity. This is the condition...
...away, over the mountains," the magician told him. "I was 15 when it was totaled. They was droppin' dead in the streets for years." "Take me to the city," Glen said. But the magician had other business, so just like Prince Valiant on a quest for the Holy Grail, Glen set out for the city...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...