Word: questings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple who have been foster parents to 40 children; a civic-minded, wealthy businessman who quickly returned the gift. Why does he do it? Cannon believes that "the quest for money and acquisitions can be very self-destructive." So he and his wife Princetta give away as much as they can, while living in a house with a leaky roof and driving a battered 1963 Chevy...
Buried in the sprawling narrative are medieval romances, scenes from fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury and brighten with the loyalty of warrior to king celebrated in Anglo-Saxon poetry. But there is no single, unifying quest and, above all, no band of brothers for the reader to identify with as they struggle across a perilous land scape. No Hobbits either, with their lame jokes and sheer joy in comradeship and camping out in the countryside that helped keep things rolling, volume after volume, through the dry and brambly patches of the Rings cycle...
...select their own admissions procedures and develop their own means of overcoming discrimination. "The hopes induced by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, that within a generation racial inequalities in education would be eradicated, have not been realized. Universities need some elbow-room to experiment in their quest for solutions," the University's brief states...
...policies designed to gain equality in our society for minorities and for women," Stokes said. "The opposition is largely political. It takes the form of creating in the body politic the sense and belief that minority groups have gained too much and have gone too far in their quest for equality." Stokes added...
...father's Jewish resort hotel, humorously, Roth is not interested in painting the expose of American Jewish life that he did in Portnoy's Complaint. Judaism is mainly a symbol. The Jew as an exile and survivor is used in conjunction with Roth's depiction of the ceaseless quest for love which, when found, fades only for the search to be renewed. As one of David's students writes in an essay: "The search for intimacy, not because it necessarily makes for happiness, but because it is necessary...