Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divine Quest...
...LIFE editorial reprinted in TIME [April 7] ... will stir a lively hope in many a heart. For, try as we may, we cannot put off forever the insistence of the soul. Man's destiny is the divine quest...
...inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living -telephones, railroad trains, banks, boardinghouses, taxicabs...
Everywhere the search crews had to go through a slow and painstaking quest for information. Early offers of rewards backfired badly. Bandits dug up bodies, reburied them until sure of being paid, and sometimes claimed reward money for remains which were not those of U.S. soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...
...Hurley, Jr. '44 of Leverett House and Boston, Mass., will captain the Varsity lacrosse team in its quest for the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League championship and the Briggs trophy that goes with it. He was elected by balloting yesterday afternoon...