Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moved by this, the President and Fellows in 1947 set up a Commission to make a study of the School's condition . . . Because, as the Study Commission pointed out, "to seek what is true is to engage in a moral and spiritual as well as an intellectual quest," it seems to me important that Harvard's school of religious learning be brought up to a standing and position of influence to that held by Harvard's other professional schools. Though much remains to be done completely to effect this in the years immediately ahead, I am happy to be able...
...expedition that cost Explorer Christian Starcross and his men their lives. At odds over the movie project are Starcross' widow (Eva Le Gallienne) and his former mistress (Mary Astor). Their feuding reveals that Star-cross himself was an unscrupulous egomaniac who had knowingly set forth on a phony quest. But his devoted widow insists that the movie be made anyhow -arguing that, in an era of despair, a heroic legend born of a lie counts for more than the actual truth...
...cocktail party is an unlikely place to look for spirituality. Yet Eliot's Cock tall Party was a veritable Communion of Saints. His apparently vapid men and flighty women all proved to be in quest of a kind of ideal love. Those with a low spiritual potential learned resignation to their far-from-ideal human loves, while Celia, who was more gifted, saved her life by losing it. In finding saints at cocktail parties Eliot is perfectly in line with primitive Christianity which teaches that the truly good man will not be recognized by any visible piety. Christ...
Eisenhower recalled that in the pages of history are recorded the deeds of "great destroyers," but that the book of history shows man in a steady "quest for peace and God-given capacity to build. It is with the book of history and not with isolated pages that the United States will ever wish to be identified...
...earth, the men who lead the three great Western democracies came together last week with their retinues of Foreign Ministers, advisers, specialists and secret service guards. Ostensibly they met to box compasses and plot new directions before proceeding farther on that treacherous and often discouraging voyage, the quest for true peace with Russia. Actually they met-in the first full-dress conference of leaders of allied governments since Potsdam-not because they had dramatic new plans but because one of them, stout and determined old Winston Churchill, wanted a conference...