Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cynical Aphorist. As Nancy Mitford remarks in her lively introduction, the same cannot be said of Madame de Lafayette, who, after marrying a provincial boor and bearing him several children, spent the remainder of her life on the edges of Louis XIV's court engaged in an endless quest for preferment and place...
...somewhat more restrained in her opinion of the role of Wellesley in the world. Admitting that "the career of a majority of women is homemaking and bringing up children," Miss Clapp is fully aware of the different immediate objectives of a man's and a woman's quest for education...
Coach Frank Richart will lead his varsity golfers against Brown this afternoon in quest of their third straight win. The teams will meet on the difficult Winnemoisett Country Club course in Providence. Dave Hedberg will play instead of Paul Weissman in the only lineup change since the last match...
...time, however, only two acceptable scholars have been found. Last week, Cambridge was looking for a third fellow to carry on the quest for what Perrott denned as "the existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life, or the persistence of the human mind after bodily death...
...liberated painting, which is now triumphantly a law unto itself. And which, indirectly and unwittingly albeit, has replaced tradition-in other words a culture studiously self-conscious-by a culture that is unselfconscious; setting up against a system of imperatives a system of research and exploration. In this quest the artist (and perhaps modern man in general) knows only his starting point, his methods and his bearings-no more than these-and follows in the steps of the great sea-venturers...