Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrows his tired eyes with the charm of a runty mutt who must scrounge to survive on a diet of crabgrass and crusty bread. Dawaere's puppylike affability extends to his awkwardly rolling gait, which takes him down highways, through bathroom windows and across manicured gardens on a quest for hilarious revenge...
...production division, earning his reputation for expertise in the search for oil and gas. But now, at the top, he spends some 60% of his time on public affairs, explaining energy matters to elected officials, Government regulators and skeptical consumers. The tall, slow-talking Louisianian recently discussed the global quest for new energy sources with TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt. Excerpts from the conversation...
...inward now has a fitting companion. Kingston's new book is a voyage out, an attempt to understand others by inhabiting them. The others are men, China Men, heirs to an ancient tradition of oppressing women. A scene early in the book sets Kingston off on her imaginative quest. As a young girl, the author watches her father at work in his laundry in Stockton, Calif. Trained as a scholar in China, he is subject to black moods and bitterness over his low estate. His angriest curses vilify women's bodies. The girl both understands and is bewildered...
Egypt said it welcomed the European initiative. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali called the principles contained in the Venice declaration "compatible" with the Camp David accords and said: "We have no objection to any contacts the Europeans may seek in the common quest for peace." That left Israel, which, to no one's surprise, bluntly rejected the European action, especially the gesture toward the P.L.O. "It is certainly not a constructive act that can be conducive to peace," snapped a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official. "It can only complicate the peace process." Palestinian reaction was cautious...
While the vignettes are interesting as social history, they diffuse attention, especially since a vast gallery of characters is involved. The pulse beat of the play, its sturdy, unfaltering heart, resides in three clearly autobiographical figures. The narrator-hero Lee (Peter Evans) is the young Miller on an ardent quest of selfdiscovery. His father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect...