Word: questings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Game. A good case could be made for this film as the best comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry, or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible--a denouement that marks such otherwise great films as Grand Illusion. But in Rules of the Game, Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese...
...roommate, Lou, began his quest for the banner many months ago, but his ultimate achievement came only after intricate planning and heroic exertion. Unsatisfied with his Razorback Stadium reflecting sign and his Rooter-Snooter Hog hat, he longed for fulfillment. The ABC banner...
...quest began back in November when UCLA was matched to play Alabama in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. My own family ties at UCLA, and the fact that Lou lived in nearby Little Rock, Arkansas, made us plan to attend the game together. It was only after the game, as Lou clutched the precious banner in his hands, that I learned that his excitement had not been over my impending visit...
Harvard previously sought "a chair in Modern Korean Studies to parallel the present chair in Pre-Modern Korean Studies" whose stress is historical. I failed almost completely to get it. And, while prating of further quest, by getting a major economic-society component alone in a small and job-starved field with few fund sources, it becomes far less likely that Harvard can and will make good the discrepancy...
There is a further quality that the Israeli recognizes as familiar about the generations of 1776 and 1948. Both had an immigrant tradition. Persecution and the search for a better life had impelled them or their forebears to go on what Jefferson called a "quest of new habitations." Both conceived of their societies as havens for the homeless and the persecuted. For both, immigration became pioneering, and pioneering, nation building...