Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the quest for dignity has had to take the form of a militant march indicates how dangerous can be drowsy and complacent inertness in decades demanding fresh social attitudes. The reality of Black Islam also attests to the fact that traditional reform agencies are invested with neither the vigour nor the spiritual force demanded by contemporary black folk. To put it quite bluntly, Negroes want a revolution in racial relations, which traditional agencies are not supplying. However, the bast majority of American Negroes, bent as they are on social elevation, know themselves to be American first and Negro...
...dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles, and that Goethe contrives his only real story, of Faust and the young Gretchen, whose seduction leads to madness and death. The Faustian quest makes for a whole kaleidoscope of moods, a whole panorama of settings. To the English-speaking world, Faust is best known, outside opera, in Marlowe's fitfully magnificent Dr. Faustus. But as Georg Brandes once noted, where Marlowe's Faust, loving power, craves omnipotence on earth, Goethe...
Examinations of other collegiate systems, the judges showed in 1958, can also be prize-worthy. John E. McNees '60 of the Crimson received the award for his The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul, an article which included a lengthy description of the Princeton "undesirables." "Besides being ignorant of his own inadequacies and ineptitudes... he wears thick glasses, has a large nose, and is flagrantly Jewish.... Most of the officers on Prospect Street would agree that this precisely describes the sort of man who at all costs must be kept out. It is also a fairly accurate portrait...
...quest for athletic "sanity" in the Ivy League has resulted in rules that defeat their own purpose...
...find themselves merely Snowbound and Snowblind. And yet Snow seems to touch a nerve in 20th century readers-perhaps because he evokes with easy assurance the intellectual and social history of the '20s and '30s; or perhaps because his concept of life as a conspiracy in quest of power has a timeliness and meaning that even the most dawdling prose cannot wholly obscure...