Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing later, delivers a long and impassioned account of running with the Weathermen during the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969; Jody Adams '69 writes movingly about the University Hall bust--"Inside, With Arms Linked, the Kids Awaited the End"--with fire and anger and sadness. "The Quest for the Cocktail Soul at Princeton," written in 1960, effectively reveals the sadism and bigotry of Princeton's "Bicker" process by which sophomores are elected to private eating clubs...
...speckled lawn of the Grande Jatte. If the origins of one aspect of the avant-garde lie with Courbet, those of the other are to be found in Manet: in detachment and irony, art contemplates its nature as a language, without hope of changing the world. The quest for formal perfection and the renewal of visual speech are enough...
...necessarily believing in the bodily Resurrection." Though he said he "affirms" the doctrine of the Trinity, as required by the Presbyterian church, he indicated he is uncomfortable with traditional creeds and shuns doctrinal formulas on principle. "For me," he declared, "the God worth knowing is found more in the quest of liberation than in the pursuit of orthodoxy...
...Anwar Sadat's proposed ecumenical center near Mount Sinai, a favorite project of Armstrong's. The article was written by the church leader himself. Shnayerson refused to print it. Then, last week, Armstrong took out a Wall Street Journal advertisement announcing that the piece would appear in Quest. Shnayerson resigned. Says he: "Quest is simply not the proper forum for religious preachments. We talked ourselves blue in the face, trying to convince them that we will lose readers and advertisers, but they said they were not concerned about that...
Since it first appeared four years ago, Quest magazine (circ. 330,000) has skittered along the fine edge of an ominous contradiction. Published by California Preacher Herbert Armstrong, 88, whose Worldwide Church of God holds that the world will end soon, the magazine was nonetheless thoroughly secular. Armstrong gave editorial control to Robert Shnayerson, 55, a former TIME senior editor and Harper's editor in chief, who dedicated the magazine to what he called "the pursuit of excellence" in fields as diverse as mountain climbing and genetic research. The magazine, which appears ten times a year, has never been...