Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUEST FOR BEING (254 pp.)-Sidney Hook-St. Martin...
Indeed the President's first overseas quest for new understandings in the old cold war seemed to have growed like Topsy. First, it was to be a visit with De Gaulle. Then Khrushchev was added, and then Macmillan. Even as President Kennedy was packing his brief case, his trip was still arousing questions. Had he blunted the meaning of each of his three major confrontations by more or less tossing them together, rather than taking on De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Macmillan in reasonably separate order? Was it wise for him to meet with Khrushchev when recent events-some...
...railed against "ugliness and the complete baffling sterility of existence as sold to you." His only weapon was a Forest Primeval complex, the traditional romantic battle cry of back to nature. The sickness of the romantic ego, and Lowry had this sickness, is to turn escape into flight, the quest for solitude into a fascination with oblivion, to fall "half in love with easeful death...
That Eastern Look. Back home, Toure's indiscriminate quest for funds to shore up his floundering country has already turned Guinea into the chief Communist foothold in West Africa. It is the price Toure has had to pay for some $110 million in Communist credits for development and construction. With the bankroll have come close to 1,000 Iron Curtain technicians and advisers, including 500 Russians, 125 Red Chinese. Sweltering little Conakry, the capital, has taken on an East European look. The black traffic cops wear little flat-topped caps resembling those of the hated A.V.H. police in Hungary...
...Kennedy has evolved from U-2 to me-too, strengthened Castro, and made the U.S. and its unintelligence service the laughingstock of the world-amidst new threats of direct military intervention and a frantic quest for testimonials from Goldwater and Nixon, from Eisenhower and Truman and Rockefeller. President Kennedy has taken the official blame but is busy trying to establish a future innocence-by-association...