Word: questing
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...while the women’s team sits in fourth place. The Harvard women are the defending Ivy League champions, while Penn will attempt to earn its second Ivy title on the men’s side. The teams are looking forward to next weekend, when it resumes its quest for the Ivy League crown in part two of the Ivy Championships at Penn...
...Friday, Harvard begins its quest for the national championship with a match against No. 8 Williams College...
...asks, hoping to discern whether the gloves could fit the hands of her niece. The girl slips on the mitts, looks at her hand and wiggles her fingers. "They're too tight," she says. Game over. Burnet says she'll keep searching, but for now, in her quest for this hot item, she's out in the cold...
...Swede, who wants help writing a memoir about his recently deceased father, invites the elderly Zuckerman to dinner. Zuckerman is captivated by the opportunity to explore what he dubs “the substratum,” his term for the deep and authentic life of the mind. This quest for the profound proves devastating as the Swede only discusses the happy, superficial lives of his family and does not even mention grieving for his father. During the dinner scene, Roth juxtaposes paragraphs in which the Swede relates inane family anecdotes against extended interior monologues tracking Zuckerman?...
...futility inherent to Beard’s personal quest for fulfillment and professional crusade against global warming is personified in his own bodily decay. Beard, the lifelong womanizer, neglects his body against his better judgment and the repeated urging of his doctors. Repeated resolutions to lose weight, exercise, and cut back on his daily drinking fall by the wayside as the vinegary scent of potato chips, cool sensation of a scotch-on-the-rocks, and plush comfort of a hotel bed overwhelm Beard’s reptilian brain. This subtle allusion to the problems inherent in collective action against global...