Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real but not that readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation of religion, but in talk about psychoanalysis there is a kind of authentic quest. It's an attempt to get back into philosophy in a roundabout...
...military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing with the promise and problems of space...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Riding the crest of surfing popularity, this beautifully photographed documentary follows two young Californians as they sample the world's beaches in quest of the perfect wave. They find it, too, and in the most unlikely place...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Two California surfers prowl the world in a studious documentary on the quest for the perfect wave...
...more than lawyers want him to tell. Spontaneous narrative would be far more revealing and probably more accurate. As it stands, says Marshall, "testimony is constantly dissected and contradicted and reshaped toward partisan ends. That is the essence of a trial; it is not a scientific or philosophic quest for some absolute truth, but a bitter proceeding in which evidence is cut into small pieces, distorted, analyzed, challenged by the opposition, and reconstructed imperfectly in summation...