Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gustave Flaubert was a great novelist, but a slapdash correspondent. These letters, most of them published in English for the first time, have none of the depth and polish of Madame Bovary. Often, in fact, they seem to have been written in tired irritation, as if his quest for the right word in his novels had sapped him of energy for anything else. They reflect a dull life but a dedicated...
Flaubert's great passion was work: the endless quest for verbal perfection. Often he spent weeks on a single page. To his young protégé, Guy de Maupassant, he wrote: "You must-believe me, young man-you must do more work. I am coming to suspect you of being somewhat of an idler. Too many tarts, too much rowing and too much exercise. A cultured man has not as much need of exertion as doctors pretend...
...lecturing on foreign policy, he describes it as the quest for power or the maintenance of power. The United Nations, to him, is merely a new instrument for the exercise of power politics...
Three teenagers, certain their quest would be blessed, trooped into Mexico City's Church of San Juan to raise fervid dark eyes to the statue of St. Anthony, encrusted with silver hearts which are the gifts of successful supplicants. At the same church, Delia Ruiz, 24, lamented: "He pays no attention to me. I won't come any more. If he wants to help, he knows where I live." But Felipa Moreno, 27, had a glowing testimonial: "I can never thank San Antonio enough for the beautiful accident he provided me. Four years ago, I wanted a husband...
...women's game. As recently as 1948 only six women managed to earn a living from professional golf. But last week, at White Plains, N.Y., 13 of the 18 pro golfers belonging to the fledgling Ladies' P.G.A. were scrambling around the hilly Knollwood course in quest of prize money that will total $80,000 this year. The big wheel on the women's circuit and the one who has made women's golf pay off: Mrs. George Zaharias, better known as Mildred Didrikson, or just plain "Babe...