Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much the worse for the Harvard Divinity School," said Adlow. "Over there they are interested in both ends--the top and the bottom. It's a quest for Paradise Lost...
Stokes and Hatcher were both born in the slums, both reared in grinding poverty. While they embody the Negro's quest for social recognition and economic advancement, they ran and were elected on their ability to represent the entire community. They have shown a sophistication and professionalism rarely seen in Negro campaigns. Further, as big-city mayors, they break the tradition whereby most Negro politicians have been forced to settle for legislative or judicial office. Running a city is one of the most demanding jobs in American politics, and one that more intimately affects the day-to-day lives...
...echoes were rancorously reminiscent of 1948, when another Democratic President began to fight back. Last week, abandoning his customary quest for consensus, Lyndon Johnson lashed out at his critics. "The struggle for progress and reform in America has never been easy," he told labor leaders in Manhattan. "On the one hand is the old coalition of standpatters and naysayers. They never wanted to do any thing, but this year they say they can't do it because of Viet Nam. Well, that's pure bunk. And far off at the other end of the spectrum, there are those...
...settles instead for the immediate rewards of technical manipulation and becomes an efficient means to ends beyond its power or judgment. It is strengthened in this tendency by a widespread assumption that in America the good life has already been achieved in a system of democratic, corporate pluralism. The quest of the ages having been completed, there is nothing more for reason to do than maintain the current structure and make the necessary corrections...
Ansara explained that student power meant "we, not the Administrative Board, make the decisions." He added that the demonstrators could re- quest the University to "form a committee with us in the next 24 hours" to work out the details of the transfer of power to the students...