Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adventure impelled Daniel Boone, in his eternal quest for a solitary fire near a fountain of sweet water, to move ever westward. Lord Byron, who had more than a passing acquaintance with adventure, eulogized Boone and his breed...
...sharply outlined bulks interrupted by thin, evanescent cuffs, ruffles and fluttery papers. The painting underlines the irony of Copley's dilemma. As is documented by a current show * on the 150th anniversary of the artist's death, he was the first great American painter, but his very quest for art destroyed that vision...
Biographer FitzGibbon tactfully underplays the vulgar melodrama that embarrasses the last act in the tragedy of Dylan Thomas: the sniggery arrival in the U.S. ("I am here in pursuit of my lifelong quest for naked women in wet mackintoshes") and the staggery progress from bottle to bottle, bed to bed, that exhausted his forces and the funds his family so desperately needed. FitzGibbon suggests instead what most clucking literati have chosen to ignore: that in the last years of his life this pintpot Pan with the archangelic voice may have done as much for poetry by reciting...
...seems to be, the independents on the Council are not without problems. Most of them don't relish the prospect of plurality. Their comfortable mathematical majorities, which look so convincing on paper, fail to reflect their chief problem: lack of unity. Each independent's quest for votes is an individual matter; he is competing against other independents more than he is working with them. PR, favoring minority votes as it does, encourages this division. But the independents are not only split by the system, but also by temperament, background, and political philosophy...
...faculty members are self-important. Perhaps it is an egotism born of the confidence that each of them knows as much as any legal scholar about his respective field. Yet still they quest after more knowledge. They serve on Commissions, on editorial boards; they lecture, write, engage in private consultative work on the side, and still find time for more...