Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crises began to fail, and DuBois realized that when the NAACP began to support the magazine financially he would no longer control its policy. So in 1933 he returned to Atlanta University for 10 years of research and teaching. By now he had published nine books, including two novels, Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Dark Princess (1928). It was in 1935 that he finally brought forth his monumental study, Black Reconstruction in America...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
...browbeat Eichmann into a 'repeat after me' attitude," Lee accepts his claim that Eichmann never recognized his own guilt. He was therefore, Lee says, "no willful Edmund, Richard Ill, Iago, or Flamineo, for the willful ones find out." Men like Eichmann, on the other hand, "have engaged in no quest, no pact, no pursuit in the name of something, they have no moments of lucidity in which they stand judged...
...review of books and a review of people, this new tabloid-size magazine has shown some strengths and some ugly deficiencies. It is impossible to say which way the pressures of revenue, prestige, politics and the quest for fame will push the Review, or, indeed, whether it will survive at all. Whatever happens, there is nothing to match it. The New York Times Book Review cannot begin to offer the freshness and possibilities of the Review. Book Week, the Herald Tribune's new excursion into publishing, may undercut the Review financially but in no other sense do they compete. Anyone...
...Archives include one of the country's most complete collections of the diaries and letters of noted women; Mrs. Solomon enjoys working with the varied scholars who use these documents. "You never know who's going to come in to do research," she says, "and I love the quest for new manuscripts." Mrs. Solomon will serve as both Director of Women's Archives and Dean of East House this fall...