Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brilliantly carved, the portrait-head vibrates with nearly fanatic spirituality," Hanfmann said. "It well expresses the spirit of transition from the Roman to the Christian world, when pagan philosophers and Christian saints shared an intensive quest of otherworldiness." Because the artists tried to portray the subject's inner life, scholars have described such works as soul-portraits...
...troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future on my part; perhaps it is only that last view of the world in which I merely need to burst my everyday clothes, the clothes of all my days. And perhaps that is why, as I progress from Palm Sunday toward Easter, one word is heard more...
...resume unilateral nuclear testing, paying lip service to scientists and humanitarians who feared pollution of the earth's atmosphere, assuring the nervous neutrals that only the warmongering West wanted to resume testing, feigning loyalty to the long, tedious test-ban negotiations in Geneva, where the painful quest for the first step toward effective world arms control droned...
...dynamic principle's motivating force--large numbers of people--has frightened some city planners. Many 20th century planners and architects, Creese continued, have forsaken the original conceptions of the street, skyscraper, and suburb in the quest for quick, but architecturally unsound solutions to the problems posed by a demanding urban population...
Sidney Hook will lecture on "Intelligence, Conscience, and the Right to Revolution" today in Burr Lecture Hall B Quest for Being, was published last month, has been professor of Philosophy at New York University since 1922. He is well known as a "pragmatic naturalist," and a philosophizer on education, politics, social conditions, and problems of existence, knowledge, and problems of existence, knowledge, and value...