Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From such inauspicious beginnings in the sport as he had, one would have never predicted that Ben Coughlin would end up at Harvard, leading one of the country's finest hockey programs in their quest for the ultimate goals...
Ours is a plastic, throw-away culture. In the perpetual quest for instant gratification--fast food, heart-stopping entertainment, efficient government--we tend to endorse and abolish in grand swaths, with a flick of the wrist, a snap of the fingers and little thought. We love McDonald's french fries for their perfectly consistent thickness and temperature, Schwarzenegger because he produces a constant stream of adrenaline, and a congressperson who stays out of trouble and agrees with us on everything...
Gordimer spoke on the plot and themes of Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. Without the quest for truth, "life would be meaningless," Gordimer said...
With a 14-6 homecoming win against Yale, Penn continues its quest to repeat for Ivy League champion. Two first half touchdowns and characteristic hammer-down defense sparked the win. Miles Macik's 18th career touchdown reception put him in the Quakers' record book...
...quest, he writes, began after the death of his father in 1987 and his mother a year later. While going over his parents' effects and papers he discovered, among the many things they had saved, family letters dating as far back as 1855. Eventually he put nearly everything into two boxes -- the dad museum and the mom museum -- and hauled them back to his Brooklyn apartment. These papers led him to take trips across the country to look at old houses and churches and to interview relatives. The process took years -- Frazier does not say it obsessed...