Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting." Magazines did so, among other ways, by their stress on self-improvement, a characteristic that differentiates America from other times and lands where "men and women have been schooled to accept the lot into which God or fate put them." The U.S., continued Luce, has developed a "questing spirit-a quest not only for what we call the good life but also a quest for greater meaning in that good life, for higher achievements of mind and spirit...
Nature's Teaching. For the classically oriented viewer, a prospect was pleasing to the degree that it was orderly. It was not until romanticism emerged around 1820 that the essential dialogue between man and nature was articulated as central theme in the quest of an American idendity. Nowhere is the theme better illustrated then in the current exhibition at Manhattan's Metropopitan Museum selected more then 450 for display in 22 galleries (see following six pages in color...
...children, television addicts, and those who relish cinema cliches. The large cliche collection here assembled includes the Reincarnated Hero, the Perilous Quest, the Lost City and the ravishingly beautiful woman who is really 2,000 years old. But She is no copycat; Britain's H. Rider Haggard wrote it in 1886,* 51 years before Ronald Colman ever heard of Shangri...
...known last week that he was taking steps to spread the butter-domestic spending-more thinly in next year's budget. He summoned Budget Director Charles L. Schultze for a White House conference-the 29th since June-and ordered him to launch a "more rigorous and searching quest for savings" among Government agencies and to be "even tougher than usual" with requests for new or expanded programs. The Administration's target: cuts of between $6 billion and $9 billion from the total requested by nondefense agencies for next year. The President has also instructed all Government agencies...
...quest for the underlying graphs that to him expressed reality, Mondrian became fascinated with the functional artificiality of the machine esthetic. In human terms, this translated into the Charleston; Mondrian so furiously loved the dance that when the Dutch government banned it he refused to return home. He moved to New York, where the gridlike streets matched the syncopated rhythms of his art in paintings that he titled Boogie-Woogie. In 1944 he died there of pneumonia...