Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates are the name of the game in any candidate's quest for a party nomination. No matter how many ballots it takes, nobody will be able to walk out of the convention hall in San Francisco the Democratic candidate for president unless he can muster support from a majority of the delegates...
...book titled Where Germany Lies, written by Günter Gaus, 53, who served from 1974 to 1981 as West Germany's first diplomatic representative to East Germany, has been on the West German bestseller list. The attraction of Gaus' memoir seems to be its openly nostalgic quest for a lost sense of German national identity within the economically less advanced East. "People in the East kept what West Germans surrendered," Gaus says. "The power to persevere grew over there, while it evaporated quickly here." Confronted with the relative backwardness of smalltown East German life, Gaus muses...
...Cornell's 76-67 upset win over Harvard before the biggest-ever crowd at Briggs Athletic Center (2850) left the Crimson with only faint hopes in its quest for that elusive Ivy title...
...sexuality was the only area where Leonardo's aversions interfered with his quest for knowledge. His unrelenting discipline in observation bore immense fruit...
Such problems, though, may turn out to be short-lived. Synthesizers are enjoying a particular vogue just now because, in the words of one composer-arranger, "they fulfill pop music's never-ending quest for fresh ear candy," but entertainment-industry enthusiasms are notoriously transient, and next year may bring a rage for Mahler-size orchestras or Renaissance recorder ensembles. And despite its mockingbird predilections, the synthesizer still sounds, at root, mechanical...