Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans have always wanted it both ways. From the first tentative settlements in the New World, a tension has existed between the pursuit of individual liberty and the quest for Puritan righteousness, between Benjamin Franklin's open road of individualism and Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening of moral fervor. The temper of the times shifts from one pole to the other, and along with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform...
...failures as well as our successes? Fifty years ago, when Harvard was celebrating its Tercentenary, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 commented that though general gaiety was the order of the moment, we would all do well to remember that as we celebrate the triumph of liberal ideals and the quest for truth, much of the world remains mired in chaos...
...find ways to shape Government programs so that they encourage, rather than discourage, self-help among the underclass. But as Moynihan noted, "We are grievously short of specific ideas." For the Democrats to regain the initiative on what has traditionally been one of their most important issues, the quest to conquer the problems of poverty in America, they will have to find ways to sharpen the ideas that they grappled with in New York City...
...Brezhnev, a little-publicized sleeper from the British Isles now in limited release around Boston. The story of two young women from the gray, depressing city of Liverpool where the largest local employer is a chicken processing plant, Letter focuses on Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Theresa's (Margie Clark) quest for adventure and escapist relief from their normally drab lives...
From a side street into the marketplace walks Kurt Waldheim, 67, the tall, gaunt former United Nations Secretary-General, now in the last stages of his quest for Austria's presidency. For his fellow citizens, he has inadvertently become a symbol of the wartime generation that was caught up in Nazi Germany's military machine. The storm over his war record is proving as painful a reminder for most Austrians today as the sight of rubble once was on the country's streets...