Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity baseball team began its quest for the Ivy crown Saturday with a 6-4 victory over Pennsylvania. Ray Peters collected the win as Harvard took advantage of five errors and scored three unearned runs--the margin of victory...
...John Ford's Air Mail (Universal, 1930), a long-gone drama of some considerable reputation. His first move is to contact Universal Pictures, which may still have a print tucked away, or know the location of one. If they do, and Kahlenberg can convince them to contribute it, the quest comfortably ends...
Circling Vultures. From Viet Nam, her romantic quest carried her to Bolivia, where she was determined to rescue Che Guevara's diary from the clutches of the Americans. "The vultures were already circling the body of the martyred revolutionary hero," she said. "I found it bizarre that the diary of this man who had dedicated his life to the fight against American imperialism should be exploited to the profit of the political line he abhorred." A Parisian publisher backed her own bid for Che's diary...
...George Romney it was the final indignity: never in his lurching pursuit of the presidential nomination had he created the impact wrought in the five minutes he took to end the quest. Seldom, in fact, has any political announcement detonated such shock waves or so rapidly reversed the positions of two men-in this case, Romney and Nelson Rockefeller. But the result for the Republican Party last week was clarification rather than confusion. Now, at last, the G.O.P. can focus on a choice between its two strongest alternatives: New Yorkers Rockefeller and Richard Nixon...
...this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated by its abuse. For Erikson points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving for intellectual understanding and objectivity, his quest for all-embracing companionship, his search for answers from the adult world. In the presence of such routine inner turmoil, emotional stress is an everyday byproduct. In fact, in adolescence (an age which Erikson wryly says lasts "from puberty to maturity"), the psychological mechanisms which normally maintain emotional reactions within...