Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago, the Theosophical Society has a broader age range than most similar groups and encourages members to remain in their own religion. The society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung in the Quest bookstore downstairs, are to "form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity... to encourage the study of comparative religions, philosophy and science, and to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent...
...oarswomen's last gasps fell just short of their quest for the first Radcliffe Eastern title since...
Best of all, Pritchett never fails at the reviewer's most important task. He inspires curiosity about his subjects, communicates the pleasures of appreciation and discernment. "Being young is a quest," he writes. The old master, 79, is still searching...
...party faces serious problems in its quest for legitimacy. One is a strategic question which caused a major rift at the convention--whether a presidential campaign is the most effective way of establishing a political party with the strong grass roots tendencies of the Citizen's Party...
...Craddock is a novel in which we see Maugham working out his familiar obsessions--the mother endangered in pregnancy, the stillborn child, the pain of love, and the quest for freedom. Just as Maugham identified with his mother, he makes Bertha Craddock his alter ego...Bertha represents both Maugham's mother and Maugham; she is the unconsciously disguised homosexual lover...