Word: questing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collison and Bill Walker, working off the West Coast, carried 400 Ibs. of equipment to their seagoing photo assignments. Shooting the submersible Deep Quest, Collison surfaced with the craft, clambered into a helicopter to shoot the aerial view, then dived from the chopper to swim back to the mother ship...
Elegiac Worst. With the onset of World War II, "the smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...
...Your excellent story on Bob Hope, one of the world's greatest humanitarians, did not mention that for the past nine years he has served as honorary national chairman of the National Parkinson Foundation. He has been a staunch supporter in our continuing quest for the cause of, and cure of, Parkinson's disease. Not content with giving us his valuable time and talent, Bob has for a number of years given us an annual personal check for $10,000. When the big breakthrough comes through research on Parkinson's disease, as surely it will...
...clergymen see the hippie faith as a genuine spiritual impulse. "Hippieness has all the marks of a new religious movement," writes Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox, in, of all places, the current issue of Playboy. "It has its evangelists, its sacred grottoes, its exuberant converts." He suggests that the hippies' quest for warmth and love is a warning to Christianity. Other churchmen quite rightly question the spiritual validity of an undigested mixture of drug-induced visions, skimmed Orientalism and nature worship. Even Cox concedes that the hippies' "confused and eclectic" theology contains "very little corrective to just plain self-indulgence...
...just what happens to the vast majority of American youngsters. Even so, the failure rate is big enough to ask why some of the most privileged children are so unready for adult life. One reason is the lack of self-shaping experience; part of the hippie syndrome is a quest for adventure and competence. They did not have the benefit of those cattle-boat jobs that might have helped to slake the thirst for adventure; they rarely got a chance to help their father at work...