Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flying from Denver to Los Angeles last week in his chartered Boeing 727, John Anderson talked with TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields and looked back at his distinctive quest for the presidency...
Sunday, the women's tennis team continues its quest for the Massachusetts women's crown. Monday, the freshman 'B' football squad takes on Bridgewater State...
...seriousness of his quest and the importance of its ramifications. Terkel's book never strays to meaningless platitudes and unctuous rambling. The book presents people talking about their lives; and "people," given a sympathetic listener, speak sense, not solemn pontifications about "the city on the hill." The author's selection of these people is inspired. Terkel didn't look for the "correct" ethnic or social mix--this is no Miller Beer commercial with the required ratio of three whites to every Black. He wants a cross-section of opinions, not faces...
...dentist named Vangelzissi. What kind of name was that? she asked. Albanian, the dentist replied. Orlov (a Russian name) was surprised. As she wondered just how many Albanian Americans were in the U.S. (roughly 70,000) and where they lived (mainly New England, New York City), the quest for an encyclopedia was born. Recalls Editor Thernstrom (whose name is Swedish): "We started on the assumption that there were something on the order of 50 or 60 ethnic groups. We ended up with 106-and even that is a somewhat arbitrary figure." Part of the problem was that nobody...
...upon a time there was a writer named Italo Calvino. Although he liked making up stories, he also wanted to read older ones in his own language. "Was there an Italian equivalent of the Brothers Grimm?" he wondered one day. No answer came. So he set out on a quest. He spent two years studying obscure texts and dusty monographs, rescuing long-forgotten tales from all the regions of his native land. Finally, he ended his labors and brought forth a magic book...