Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about-face, at least one U.S. critic, North Carolina State's E. M. Halliday, recently called Hemingway essentially a philosophical writer. His was, of course, never a formal but a sort of visceral philosophy. But though he was leary of metaphysical systems, Hemingway was really on a metaphysical quest. Without the customary marks of the intellectual, in fact often called anti-intellectual, he was nevertheless a tenacious observer of the crisis in belief and values which is the central crisis of Western civilization...
...spoke Morton white of the Philosophy Department at Harvard upon the publication of hook's The Quest for Being in June...
...makes poor money and worse puns ("All nudes is good nudes"). He falls in love with a rich man's girl friend and, to keep her in caviar and champagne, starts forging old masters. But the caviar turns to ashes in a psychologized unhappy ending. Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy): " 'Yes, yes,' she said, 'I want you. Take me, Rufus.'" Part 3 (obloquy): "Nobody believes in trees...
...Harvard, in its quest for excellence, is caught between two contradictory impulses. The College would like to avoid the pain, for the school and the applicant, that comes from rejecting a well-qualified boy; and the present system cannot handle many more candidates in a single year. But at the same time, Harvard is committed, to itself and to its tradition, to leave no place unvisited in its search for the unusual and talented applicant...
...tempted to ask whether Harvard, even in a quest for excellence, should solicit candidates so directly and, indeed, so desperately. And one would feel better even about these techniques if they were less strongly oriented toward athletes. Glimp and the staff try to visit local workers as frequently as possible, to keep them up to date on University policy, but the alumni obviously have considerable freedom of discretion. This freedom, if misused, could lead to most serious imbalances in incoming classes...