Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Camus's refusal to seek sanctuary in such abstractions marked him as an outsider while he lived and a prophet now, in an age of discredited dogmas. Reviewing Le Premier Homme, Paris' Le Monde asked, "Can we now rediscover Camus without political and historical prejudices, in his quest for truth?" The answer will spread with the translations, and it seems...
...obvious attempt at explore Jake's inner psyche, the movie gets lost along the way, caught up in its own artistic gimmicry. It fails to render any of its allegedly soulful characters believable--or even likeable. Instead, Jake's profound quest in life (for a brilliant career and a beautiful wife, of course) becomes a megalomaniacal alternate reality where the world centers upon him. Gorillas give him advice, faces carved into a stone wall give him advice, and important people from his life keep popping up at random times to give him advice. This kooky, off-the-wall style...
Buso-Garcia's quest for funding, and his realization that Harvard lacks the infrastructure to support independent filmmakers, led him to form Harvard-Radcliffe Filmmakers, a group devoted to helping students produce...
What can her private correspondence add to the legacy of her poems? A great deal, as it turns out, including the struggles that lay behind Bishop's quest for perfection. One Art (Farrar Straus Giroux; 668 pages; $35) offers 541 letters selected from the more than 3,000 assembled by her editor Robert Giroux. The book amounts to a kind of daily autobiography, with none of the reshaping that memory can impose. Bishop loved sending and receiving mail. "I sometimes wish," she wrote while a student at Vassar, "that I had nothing, or little more, to do but write letters...
...stood on the threshold of full integration. Having won gains in the political and social areas, Black students at Harvard were crusading to clinch the last gain, to have an Afro-Am program of their own. Former students say this struggle for academic recognition parallels Black people's national quest for complete integration...