Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigorous opposition to the conduct of the Begin-Sharon government known to that government's representative. And, as citizens of the United States, which guaranteed the safety of Palestinian civilians in the Habit negotiations, we also must speak out. Please join us if you too believe in the quest for an equitable and just peace in the middle East. Joseph M. Schwartz Thomas Canel '83 H/R Students for Peace in the Middle East
...quest to find the most unique method of alcoholic consumption, a Bucknell College student is coming here "to find out if the drinking games at Harvard measured up to the caliber of the school...
Your Essay on the growing obsession with security among Americans could easily have extended its point to the Defense Department. Nowhere is there a more compulsive and irrational quest for security than in the military. Just as bodyguards make the guarded feel more insecure, our growing nuclear arsenal only increases our nation's sense of vulnerability...
More intriguing are a few recurring disparities between Harvard memories and Yale memories. Yale students of the 50s and 60s, if this volume is any indication, were infinitely more occupied with soul-searching quests for meaning of life than their Harvard counter-parts. The screenwriter Herbert Wright (Yale '69) unbelievably puts the quest in exactly those terms: "I misspent much of my youth...in search of an answer to my burning big question: Is There Meaning to Life?" Richard Rhodes (Yale '59) is worse: he goes on for 10 tortured pages in John Leonard gibberish about his search...
...adage about politics and bed-fellows rang true yet again this week, when Edward J. King supported Michael S. Dukakis in his quest to become Massachusetts' next governor. The bitter ideological and personal rivalry goes back to 1978, when King unseated Dukakis--who was governor at the time--in the Democratic primary. At a Statehouse press conference Thursday. King announced. "I will support the Democratic ticket. Michael Dukakis is on that ticket." The lame duck governor went on to say he would not campaign in the next five weeks...