Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe varsity lightweight crew team furthered its quest for a berth in the National Championships last Saturday morning when it demolished an outclassed Wellesley squad, and raised its season record to a perfect...
...past presidential elections, the American people have elected the candidate who promised to balance the budget, lower taxes and maintain or increase defense spending. Now we are like a terminally ill patient who goes "doctor shopping" in a desperate quest to be cured. When will we stop abandoning a President because he cannot deliver the impossible things that we demand...
...call "real" arms control is as indispensable to national security as improvements in defense programs, since arms control can set rules of the road for both sides and thus lessen the chances of a collision. But they have had as much difficulty, and demonstrated as much ambivalence, in their quest for "real" arms control as in their ludicrously meandering search for an MX basing plan. The SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) process contributed modestly, marginally, but still significantly to the avoidance of nuclear war. Reagan has in effect suspended that process. He has promised, but not yet presented, what...
...objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest for the ideal. The B70 bomber, the antiballistic missile, the Bl, the MX, the Trident II missile have all been canceled or delayed...
Around 1920 the quest for an ultimate style that would correspond to social revolution and human self-improvement was one of the great issues of avant-garde art, the hope of the constructivist Internationale. And it became so for two main reasons: the growth of Utopian collectivist thought (mainly, but not only, Marxist) and the recoil from the horrors of World War I. "The period of destruction is totally finished," announced a De Stijl maniesto in 1923. "A new period begins: that of construction." It is a younger version of he sentiment hauntingly expressed in Dryden's Secular Masque...