Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction that a new one there must be. But why?" A bitter, running dispute between Christian factions in Arabia scandalized the non-Christian population, and Christian ideas had made no lasting impression on the Arabs among whom Mohammed was,born. "Perhaps in the formative years of Mohammed's quest," says Cragg, "a more virile, a less dubious Christianity could have satisfied his sense of need and obviated the great 'other' that Islam became." Later, Christian assaults in the form of the Crusades taught Islam to hate the faith the Crusaders professed. And long years of Western domination...
This dedicated quest for the quail leads Ashe to a strange world. In a Hollywood encampment in Tunisia, where Cosmic International is filming The Queen of Carthage, he finds the lovely Shala up to her violet eyes in swains. Her "little shock of incredulity" on seeing him for the first time yields to ever greater shocks as Ashe clanks through her admiring herd, disconcerting the urbane and unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic...
Massachusetts and Missouri are the two states most often taken to illustrate the old-line workings of American party politics. But Massachusetts probably has a slight edge in its perfection of the quest for the loaves and fishes, if only because here the art of politics has had so much more time to develop its distinctive style. With a settled regional economy, the avenues to succss here are limited and winning elections has become a financially and socially rewarding profession...
Last week in Manhattan death came to Clarence Birdseye. 69, and ended his restless quest. Behind him he left 300 patents, a characteristically tart self-description: "I do not consider myself a remarkable person. I am just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct...
...intellectuals. "The problem of the aoth century is the death of man." Most of the writings of 50-year-old, Paris-dwelling Irish Expatriate Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) are opaque obituaries of humanity. Written in a kind of Joycean code, they are further complicated by a neo-Cartesian quest for identity, the logic of which runs: "I cannot think and do not know, therefore I am-or am I?" In his play Waiting for Godot, this intellectual razzle-dazzle bewildered theatergoers, delighted highbrows and kept critics lunging desperately for underlying meanings. Malone Dies will furrow many another critical brow...