Word: questing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed at our house with other people, not with...
George Wallace's third-party quest for the presidency has captured so many hearts and spleens that by last week he was already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...improbable quest through Prague for morphine to ease his clandestine patient's pain, Dr. Braun seeks out his sister, who has been reduced to the level of working as a cleaning woman in a Nazi-run brothel. He first blunders into the girls' shower room-giving Brynych an excuse for a breathtaking study of the splash and spray of water on naked female forms. Later, the camera encounters a nightmare revel of swinish soldiers among whom the girls are herded like cattle before being returned to their stalls. In a corner, Braun comes upon the body, ignored...
COUPLES, by John Updike. In his fifth and most ambitious novel, Updike shuffles the sex lives of ten couples as he examines adultery in the "imaginative quest" for life's meaning...
Above and behind his reverence which extends to oral encounters between Piet and Foxy-looms Updike's central metaphor. He finds in sex an expression of his own Piet-like quest to recapture the past. Nostalgia suffuses him, goads him, at times frightens him. At home, in Ipswich, Mass., Updike spends hours leafing through boyhood photograph albums. "I find old photographs powerful," he says. "There's a funny thing about the way the flux of time was halted at this particular spot. You just can't get back...