Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nation So Conceived, Reinhold Niebuhr and Alan Heimert explore this peculiar Messianic conception Americans have of their own history. The authors organize their material into three major categories: 1. "The quest for national unity and identity." 2. The impact of industrialism on an agrarian state. 3. "The transformation of the nation's original sense of mission to its present sense of responsibility...." Each of these categories is treated in a single chapter, and the entire book runs only to 155 pages. Such brevity on so sweeping a theme creates difficulties. The authors present their work in a wonderfully clear, concise...
...after World War II he had become estranged from his wife, and married another woman whose marriage had also broken up during the war. His second wife was a Catholic who had fallen away from the Church and was struggling to regain her faith. He was drawn into this quest, and it had a profound effect on his life and poetry...
...been made fragmentary, timid music for an orchestra. In his scoring, Lewis seemed barely able to tell his strings from his brass: the violins and cellos were misused in pursuit of inconsequential filigree, while the basses took long and vapid solo runs. Lewis had gone perilously far in the quest to make jazz more respectable without making it more substantive...
...universal crimes: torpor, mediocrity, the avoidance of the dare of love. In The Trial, the absolute appears as The Law; in The Castle, as the warder who never appears; in Amerika, as a promise extended but never fulfilled. The bitter loneliness Kafka suffered, Politzer says, was in quest for "the hope beyond hopelessness,'' "the glimmer of light Kafka knew existed...
...them satisfactorily. He was what the Germans call a Schwindelkopf (spinning head), hopelessly shifting from one thing to another. Abruptly, one day in 1786, he left for Italy with hardly a word of explanation. The trip was a sharp break with Charlotte. More than that, it was the quest of a confused northern Germanic soul for the sunshine of classic order...