Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to make appealing theatre out of When We Dead Awaken. Certainly it is hard to distinguish Ibsen's shortcomings from those of director and cast. The Theatre Company's major mistake, I think, was to produce When We Dead Awaken in the first place. In their quest for unusual modern plays, they seem this time to have bitten off more than they--or possibly any company--can chew...
...without any respect for the rights of human beings or nations. This hypocritical tendency of some of the non-nuclear countries has done a great deal of damage to the cause of peace. Countries which speak of nonalignment in this fight between the two great powers give up the quest for the triumph of human rights and jeopardize the right of nations to be free...
Inevitably, there has been pressure from such sources as Paris, India and the United Nations for negotiations. Citing "dangerous possibilities of escalation," U.N. Secretary-General U Thant urged "shifting the quest for a solution away from the field of battle to the conference table." Replied the State Department: "We see no purpose to be served until there is evidence that the Communists are willing to abide by their previous commitments to leave their neighbors alone...
Johnson naturally tied his plans for the nation's economy to his goals for the Great Society. Said he: "Economic policy can more than ever become the servant of our quest to make American society not only prosperous but progressive, not only affluent but humane, offering not only higher incomes but wider opportunities, its people enjoying not only full employment but fuller lives...
...years, as history is wrought, some men are destined to be leaders of humanity and to shape the future course of the world. Dr. King is such a man. I take great pride in honoring this citizen of Atlanta who is willing to turn the other cheek in his quest for full citizenship for all Americans...