Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy underscores the great gambles being run in the quest for gas under the North Sea, the most treacherous body of water ever ventured into with offshore drilling rigs. That fact not only heightens the danger to crewmen but vastly increases the expense. The sturdier rigs required cost as much as $10 million apiece; to drill a well costs another $2,000,000. Not every well is a strike, nor is every strike a commercial proposition: Continental Oil Co. of England, the only other company that has struck gas in Britain's portion of the North Sea, recently abandoned...
Radio Hanol attacked these moves, saying, "The campaign in quest of peace which Lyndon Johnson is conducting in the Texas manner can by no means hide its deceitful and hypocritical nature...
Kienholz, 38, has meticulously created the eatery on Santa Monica Boulevard. In his quest for verisimilitude, he even bought a new phone booth to replace the Beanery's so that he could have the real thing for his stage-set. The jukebox, too, is real, though the choice of records turns out to be art world in-puns: Up a Larry Rivers; It's Delightful, It's Delovely, It's de Kooning...
...difference between Kennedy and Johnson [Nov. 26] is the difference between a call for sacrifice and a quest for shallow consensus, between hope and concern for the future of mankind and a total preoccupation with the next piece of domestic legislation, between a man and a politician. Kennedy reflects the majesty that was Rome and the intellect that was Greece. Johnson reflects the paternalism and arrogance that is Texas...
...Grail which motivates this glowing silkworm's Quest from coast to coast appears to be some mystic sense of Nowness, which, once possessed, will be the journalistic scoop of an epoch. Mainland commitment is no good, because "the moment you become a partisan of any cause you commit yourself to ideas fifty years old, because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does...