Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice...
...quest of a more central location for their business, the Simons moved to Highland, Ill., some 35 miles from St. Louis, in 1946. Paul enrolled at Dana College, a Lutheran school in Blair, Neb. He was a little more than a year short of graduation when his parents discovered that the weekly paper in nearby Troy, Ill., was about to fold. With the help of a $3,600 loan guaranteed by the local Lions Club, Paul Simon, 19, was the publisher and owner of the Troy Tribune. "I wanted to be the Walter Lippmann of my generation," he explains...
...show's first image is a curtain imprinted with pages from three fables about magical keys to happiness: Cinderella, which in this interpretation concerns the illusory promises of perfect love; Jack and the Beanstalk, in which Sondheim and Lapine see a quest for the fool's gold of material conquest; and an invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson...
...People last week to plot their country's course. The debate is not only about the future but also about the past. Every Sunday at Moscow's newly reopened Novodevichy Cemetery, hundreds of curious Soviets wander among the gravestones, searching for a missing piece of history. The quest usually takes them to the jagged, black-and-white monument to Nikita Khrushchev or the haunting marble bust of Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (the dictator is buried beside the Kremlin Wall). Since Gorbachev urged historians to fill in the "blank spaces" of the past, the pain of the Stalinist years...
...contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...