Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Antarctica, freely lend each other equipment and food, pool weather information, even regularly exchange scientists. If Antarctica's scientists no longer undergo the fearful ordeals of earlier generations of explorers, they still pursue the same high ideal that impelled such heroes as Amundsen, Byrd and Scott. That quest, in the lines from Tennyson's Ulysses, was defined on the cross that stands in memory of Scott and his men, who died returning from the South Pole...
...Self as an Unmade Bed. The good half of Telemachus Clay is its brilliantly evocative staging, the indifferent half its overfamiliar theme-the quest for identity, based on a personal history that sounds the way an unmade bed looks. Playwright Lewis John Carlino (Cages) uses the name Telemachus to invoke the son of Odysseus who could not draw his father's great bow. Carlino's Telemachus is illegitimate, and he searches for the lost father and the fullness of manhood in his Spoon Riverish home town and later in Hollywood...
...York Times was the only reporter there-although security prevented him from printing a word for a month. On Aug. 9, 1945, he rode with the B-29 bomber that obliterated Nagasaki. He once talked Harry Truman into sending a clandestine Government expedition to Africa, in quest of a rare plant from which cortisone could be produced. Leading scientists were more than his informants; they were also his friends, who respected his ability to translate the labyrinthine mysteries of their profession into language that almost anyone could understand. Last week, not without regret, Science Editor Bill Laurence, 75, announced that...
Homesick for the Desert. All over the earth the quest has spread for undiscovered chapters of man's history. The wonder is that in the spate of technical activity a place remains for a pure surface man like Glueck. But he has earned that place many times over. After the partition of Palestine between Israel and Jordan in 1948, the Holy Land calmed down a bit and Glueck took stock. He liked the job of college president and had made a great success of it. Hebrew Union College is now a plush and prosperous institution. It has merged with...
Charley's wife is, like the narrator, a nothing, and not surprisingly the two nothings mate. As the affair continues, it becomes increasingly important to the two participants to see Charley fail-in his career as an architect and in his quest for citizenship. When Charley passes his citizenship test, his wife runs away with a eunuch. Her desertion drives her narrator-lover into madness...