Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added up to for the average person. This was not like Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system, which meant a new freedom for all Americans. Apollo's meanings are more difficult to grasp but may be more important. Historian Melvin Kranzberg insists that "man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...
...court upholds the suit, rent control foes will never be able to bring the issue to the voters--and will have yet another avenue cut off in their quest to end the price ceilings...
...result is both eccentric and oddly endearing. Kirstein portrays himself as a child with "an inborn greed for artificed splendor," mesmerized by patterns and designs. One of the longest episodes in the book recounts his intense quest for just the right emblem to paint on his canoe paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled...
...whatever critics may think, he is certainly not afraid to get his hands dirty or his feet wet in his quest to discover modern Russia. One day he braved floodwaters to visit the small farming community of Bichyovka, plagued by heavy rains. An old babushka, who obviously did not know the identity of the visitor, shrilly confronted Solzhenitsyn with a timeless, rural Russian lament: "The roads are full of water. Why can't you do something about it?" Said Solzhenitsyn: "I'm not an official. I can't do anything." It was a humble admission from a literary giant, proving...
There can be few more inherently untheatrical topics than a writer's struggle to find his or her individual voice. The journey is internal, the judgment that it is over is purely subjective, and the quest is not of obvious relevance to any onlooker. From Look Homeward, Angel to Brighton Beach Memoirs, plays on this topic have been talk, talk, talk. So it is startling and satisfying to see a 68-ft.-wide stage crowded with white tigers, monkey kings, acrobats, sword fighters and 18-ft.-tall spirits of wisdom gliding by % serenely as California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre unfolds...