Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just don't have enough information to make a judgment on a thing which has to do with military tactics," he explains. When reports circulated recently that he was shifting to an anti-Johnson stance, he declared: "The President needs the support of the American people in the quest for an honorable peace." Rocky has thus hewed precisely to the course that Scammon, mixing metaphors, thinks Republican candidates should follow: "They should sit still, and if there is this wave of discontent, let the apple fall into their laps." Reagan, by contrast, is outspokenly in favor of an intensification...
...provide an interestingly troubled minority, inchoate, restless, and dissatisfied. A law degree will provide at least a moratorum, at best a new sense of purpose. The competitive atmosphere of the first year, at Yale as well as at Harvard, may turn some of these students off. In rejecting the quest for riches and even for economic security, this small strang of students I am describing may underestimate how much money it takes to live in the modest way they would like to, even to keep up their record collections. Such a student, when he emerges with an LL.B., may feel...
...Andrew Sinclair. A bizarre fable-or parable-about an amnesic giant who makes a bewildering pilgrimage through history in quest of himself...
While George Romney went a slumming, theWhite House turned a shrewd distaff eye upon the countryside. Accompanied by a Cabinet-rank coterie, the President's wife last week took off on a four-day, seven-state Midwest trek to broach a new Johnsonian quest: Can the U.S. slow the hegira to the cities, haul the hamlets out of hibernation, and reverse the overwhelming demographic thrust of the century...
...identity problem (again) is posed here more as a conundrum than a crisis. Cornelius Yamb is hired by a gangster syndicate to track down a nearmythical youth named Bruno, heir to a fabulous fortune. The quest leads him to a remote Canadian village, where to his surprise he is welcomed as Conrad...