Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that "a man must fight hypocrisy to live in a moral world." Yet their own obsession with "keeping cool" is also hypocritical, argues the committee. Their desire for "instant love, instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis and instant mysticism" is just a "form of escape from hard work," clothed in a "quasi-moral...
Since that time--when Quincy's identity was tangible and apparent--Quincy's apologists have interpreted subsequent years as a quest for a new House image, and a search for the dominant theme running through the House's activities. The apologists have forgotten Quincy's original intention. Quincy was not designed for those who wanted the pomp of the old Harvard, or for those who wanted to have a particularly elite life-style imposed on them. Instead, Quincy was designed for the vigorous student who sought to achieve his own goals without any restrictions upon his chosen patterns of living...
...probably troubled many of us when he points out that "the more humdrum thse matters (of Presidential concern) become, the more the President will turn to his ceremonial and symbolic role to provide circuses to the people." What is to be questioned is Burns's means of approaching the quest for new areas of action...
...mainly to overcome its raw-materials deficit that Japan, in the name of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, once sent its armies on the march. After World War II, the Japanese turned from the bayonet to the bargaining table in their quest for raw materials, but until fairly recently they have relied mostly on piecemeal purchasing. Now they are moving toward longer-range development projects. Explains Saburo Tanabe, in charge of procurement for the huge Fuji Iron & Steel Co.: "The day of spot purchases is ending. The Japanese must go out and develop untapped resources, because this means...
...Congress, despite the President's quest for a broad consensus, the division of opinion to some extent has continued to follow party and regional lines. Republicans and Southern Democrats generally favored resuming the bombing, while Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans mostly hoped to prolong the pause...