Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Roy Wilkins, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, founding (1925) boss of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester B. Granger, executive secretary for the National Urban League. The four were mindful of the President's recent exhortation to Negro publishers that Negroes be "patient" in their quest for full civil rights, and Wilkins, for one, had criticized Ike roundly. As a result, both the Negro leaders and the President kept their guards up and their tempers down...
...summer quest for the tourist dollar, the world's largest city paraded an exuberant proclamation for the tourist to read: "New York Is a Summer Festival." But grimly unfestive was a shadowy battle that had swirled through the city streets during winter and spring, indeed during all the seasons since World...
Time v. Eternity. There is in this fragment Thoreau's reverence for Nature as a living Bible: "Nature is right, but man is straight. She erects no beams, she slants no rafters, and yet she builds stronger and truer than he." There is the mystical quest of the Absolute: "Speech is fractional, silence is integral." Thoreau early loathed the time-serving bondage in which he pictured most of his fellow men as trapped, leading lives of quiet desperation: "What is sacrificed to time is lost to eternity." Regarding newspaper-reading as a monstrous waste of time, Thoreau later played...
Throughout the summer session there is considerable dramatic and musical activity calculated to divert students from the more engaging quest for the humid, under-the-shade-tree liberal education...
...Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...