Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1960s began with a summons to national excellence and moral grandeur. Eight years later, Americans are divided, dispirited and disillusioned. The 1968 presidential campaign might have reawakened the quest for greatness. Instead, the electorate's fears have dominated everything. Equally fearful of losing, the candidates have failed to articulate any new sense of national purpose and direction...
...budgerigars and a machine designed to kill its victims with sexual pleasure. Jane kills the machine instead, leading its operator to exclaim: "What kind of a girl are you-have you no shame?" Such are only a few of her picarisque adventures in the course of a solo intergalactic quest during the year...
...meaning in his life, unhappy with a rigid German society that seemed to crush his artistic sensibilities, he tried to commit suicide. His parents responded by sending him first to a faith healer, then to a school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience" for Hesse; renouncing German authoritarianism, he joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in writing antiwar tracts, and as a result fell into political, social and literary disfavor...
...dying revolutionary can envision nothing but the total extinction of his own self." Because Mao and a few around him suffer from this "sur vivor paranoia," China "must be made to convulse." Thus the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was contrived by Mao and his aging comrades in a quest for the rebirth of zealous Communism in China. To stoke the fires of fanaticism, the leaders called forth specific images of hate: "American imperialism," "bourgeois remnants," and "modern revisionism," and turned the Red Guard loose in the streets...
...This is by no means unusual. By current Detroit custom, every time a recall campaign is launched, certified letters go out to all owners of suspect cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers and licensing bureaus. It goes this far: last year G.M. and Polk, toward the end of an Oldsmobile...