Word: quests
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That is what he prefers. He has not written many songs since 1965 and has not performed regularly in the United States since 1960. His sporadic, 20-year quest for a Harvard Ph.D. in Mathematics ended in 1965. During the last decade he has lived half each year in Cambridge and spent the winter months as a visiting teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. "When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did," Lehrer says, "people think you're eighter crazy or dead." Tom Lehrer, 53 years...
...central administration, McEachern says, must be held accountable to the committee. She says she supports the present school committee's quest for affirmative action in the hiring and firing of teachers, and agrees with the committee's definition of "qualified...
Joseph Maynard, a member of the current school committee certain to win his quest for reelection, declined to answer questions about the election; his wife died recently and since then he has not been campaigning actively or granting interviews...
Iron Rage, The Quest, Hard Reign and The Group--the Channel...
...though the language of Riddley Walker is unfamiliar, the story it tells rings with unmistakable urgency. Riddley runs away from his "crowd"--his community of foragers--and becomes unwittingly drawn in to Goodparley's obsessive quest to regain the technology of explosives. Tantalized by the legendary ability of man before the flash to build "boats in the air and picters on the wind," Goodparley determines to recreate the power that created these mysteries; when he meets Riddley, he thinks he has found the first breakthrough: the ingredients of gunpowder...