Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warheads and bombs. Both offered freezes and reductions on missiles in Europe. But on closer scrutiny, the underlying differences remained so significant that it was still hard to tell if both sides were motivated by a sincere desire for an arms-control agreement as well as by their continuing quest for propaganda advantage. The two nations still disagree, for example, on how to define the warheads to be included in the limit of 6,000 nuclear charges. And even if both could agree on reducing offensive weapons, the Soviets are still insisting on a trade-off: cuts in missiles...
...bottom line is that faculty egos are too fragile to face their faults, then the quest for a course guide will have been in vain...
...faculty egos are as strong as the CUE Guide might lead us to believe, that quest may soon claim its grail...
...religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant innovation He does however make time for children, old ladies, and animals in distress, which shows that underneath his corporate exterior exists something more human...
Instead of precise instruments and control dials guiding man's ordered observations, Mr. Palomar performs an awkward ritual, blinding himself with his flashlight and fumbling with charts of the heavens. This image is itself the only stable reference point for the Reader, the riveted audience of Calvino's quest. Unbeknownst to Mr. Palomar absorbed in his charts, a little crowd of onlookers gathers, whispering and observing "his movements like the convulsions of a madman." Unbeknownst to the Reader absorbed in the book, Calvino has manipulated him out into the open, where he can observe his Reader, placed among Mr. Palomar...