Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE: MARTHA QUEST AND A PROPER MARRIAGE by Doris Lessing. 605 pages. Simon & Schuster...
This is the theme that slowly surfaces in these first two novels of what Doris Lessing plans as a five-novel-cycle. The heroine is a girl of middle-class English parents who was born and grows up in a British colony in Africa. Her name, Martha Quest, is recognized first as lame symbolism and then as intentional irony. Martha is not questing for anything. Her father is an unsuccessful farmer and a passionate hypochondriac her mother is a graceless worshipper of convention...
...shadow of Jack Kennedy-emerged still a different, a bolder man, whose aim it was to imprint the Johnson character on the one year remaining to him as President. At Ann Arbor, Mich., in May, Johnson established the theme on which he planned to build his quest. The new goal for America, he declared, was to be called "the Great Society." Said he: "For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom...
Harvard's soccer team will begin the quest for its seventh Ivy League title in a decade with a game at Columbia this afternoon...
...only shows a sure sense of the law's limits, but also serves as a reminder that the 14th Amendment embodies an old American proposition that somewhere Government power stops and the right to privacy begins. This week the Court begins a new term in its endless quest for the proper limits creating liberty and the range of liberty creating limits, proving once again that "equal justice under law" is what the U.S. Supreme Court is all about...