Word: quests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world considered obscene. And throughout a week that culminated in a somber state funeral Saturday, there were questions everywhere about what the Middle East, indeed the world, would be like without him; where the earthquake of his death had left Egypt; what would be the future now of the quest for a Middle East peace...
...most part, it was a quest with challenging goals. Sadat would look for an angle, find one, take action, then move on to the next confrontation. Finally, with the peace initiative, it seemed he had found his Holy Grail. He fought alone, rarely giving ground and sometimes taking too much. Then, they took his life in the hope no one would be so foolhardy as to emulate...
...emerge clearly. Certainly it gave him a political boost at home. Perhaps it even served to fulfill a fantasy in which Anwar el-Sadat, as the "father of Egypt," singlehandedly made peace with the hated enemy. Such debate is in the end irrelevant, for Sadat's journey, his ultimate quest, stands as one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. This fact cannot be overstated, for in one deft move, Sadat put a thaw to a seemingly rock-solid antagonism...
...blame them. Professors who feel they're contributing to scientific progress while making a buck don't like to be told they should stick to University activities. After all, private industry does boast far more advanced equipment than even the richest of universites. The notion of universities spearheading the quest for scientific advance is romantic, but it simply doesn't always happen that way. The 5 per cent of faculty members who choose not to disclose their outside lives--one expert's educated guess of the rate of noncompliance--may just be the ones who forge a new understanding...
...Kennedy name. Tarnished as John F. Kennedy '40 may have been by revisionist historians, his name retains a certain magic for most of those who consider themselves progressive. Kennedy's association with some of the very values that until recently the K-School had conspicuously ignored--like the quest for social equality on the part of women and minorities--should serve as an ever present reminder to K-School administrators of just how far they must go before their institution can proudly uphold the Kennedy legacy of social justice...