Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the future as a quest for progressive perfection in government, Mr. Littauer is confident that "here capable men will be taught how to improve and administer the wide range of government activities, competently and efficiently, and to carve new and better paths in the pattern of democracy...
...Rightist President announced that he and his followers have set out on a "quest for social justice." He postulated that "Liberal regimes have always failed in Spain" and that "agents of international Communism as well as Democracy" have helped Leftist Spain. In its territory, charged the Generalissimo, 400,000 civilians have been executed as political opponents of the Leftists "for the sole reason that they believed in God and their Fatherland," Catholic Spain...
Trojan Incident (produced by the Federal Theatre). With three current hits in Manhattan (Haiti, Prologue to Glory, . . . one-third of a nation . . .), the Federal Theatre last week recklessly plunged more than 3,000 years into the past in quest of a fourth. Drawing chiefly on the Trojan Women of Euripides, Trojan Incident relates the aftermath of the most famed of all wars, shows the Greeks leading the women of Troy into slavery and concubinage...
...tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines no cinemagoer can fail to comprehend. When, after that...
Perhaps the author should have explored more fully the implications of Schumpeter's definition of imperialism as an "objectless, irrational, violent disposition toward indefinite, purposeless expansion." What is implied here is the problematical contrast between absolutism's quest of glory and aggrandizement as an end in itself and the rationally oriented calculus of bourgeois capitalism. Such encomium of the profit motive strikes me as no more realistic than the Marxist interpretation of imperialism...