Word: questing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest of Ivy pride, the Harvard men's track team finished second by a heart-breaking two points in the Big Three meet held Saturday in New Haven, Conn...
...plot lacks inventiveness. The young prostitute (Season Hubley) who helps Scott in his quest is really just another hooker with a gold-plated heart. And a private detective (Peter Boyle) who also helps out remains an ambiguous, unfocused figure. The porn merchants and heir handimen are all stock figures...
...physicists thought Einstein's lonely quest was hopeless, and in fact he never succeeded. But Einstein was convinced such a basic harmony and simplicity existed in nature...
However that quest may turn out, the father of relativity remains a moving figure, a 20th century Newton who set physics aflame and left an intellectual legacy so rich and profound that its depth is still a source of amazement and discovery. Yet Einstein, for his part, never lost sight of the humanity that new knowledge should serve. Says Einstein's executor, Economist Otto Nathan: "Even if he had never done science at all, he would have been one of the memorable figures of the century." That may be the exaggeration of a loyal friend. But as a centennial assessment...
...quest for truth: I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant...