Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactics against the free nations have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence ... to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity." The U.S., therefore, needed to maintain and strengthen its collective security pacts with free countries, its own "long-haul" program of military preparedness. The U.S. needed to press its quest for regional objectives: in Asia, "help to nations struggling to maintain their freedom"; in Europe, "a greater measure of integration"; in the Middle East, "a fair solution of the tragic dispute between the Arab states and Israel, all of whom we want as our friends...
Floating Hair. Of course, the princely quest was strictly unofficial, and on his arrival in New York, Rainier smilingly denied that he was seeking an American bride. Officially, the purpose of his trip was a checkup at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, but since Prince Rainier is in royally robust health, that was obviously just an excuse to justify the expense account. Before he left Paris last week, the Prince gave reporters an idea of what he had on his mind: "The ideal woman, I see her with long hair floating in the wind, the color of autumn leaves...
...Where are the missing 22,000?" the Alumni Bulletin had exclaimed in its quest for 100 percent graduate participation. Seward C. Simons '11, a Tournament of Roses official, thought that they were probably out West, so he proposed to pit Harvard vs. Oregon in the Rose Bowl. Simons had come East to ball out his son, arrested for cutting off the pigtails of a girl sitting in front of him at the Harvard-Yale game...
Faithfully Are the Wounds is a disturbingly bitter indictment of the effect which a quest for "security" might have on the Harvard faculty and students. Although its location is Cambridge, the book is not so much a characterization of Harvard as it is a eulogy of a magnetic past member of the faculty. Sarton is concerned less with the Harvard scene and more with the struggle of a liberal mind in a time of national crisis...
...unprecedented quest for top quality graduate students, J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will leave Sunday for a month-long tour of nine small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and West...