Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that the novel is narrated in the first person. At the beginning of both film and novel, Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), a butler at Darlington Hall, is about to begin a road trip about England. This physical journey is from the start linked to a spiritual quest. The narrator of the book, Mr. Stevens, does not intend to wander aimlessly about the country; rather, he embarks on a pilgrimage, resolved to restore Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to her erstwhile position. He hardly even concerns himself with the twenty years which have passed since...
Each of these consequences adulterates the quest for truth and knowledge that the university is supposed to promote. Because it is easier to do well in fewer courses and in courses form one's concentration, the current system encourages the grade-conscious to take courses in familiar disciplines. Considering how much students are paying for their education, and considering the intellectual breadth with which many students would like to design their education, all reasonable measures should be taken to ensure that students have more course options during their college education...
Research on aids is like a relentless pendulum that swings between great expectations and great disappointment. Every time there's a hint of a breakthrough in the so far futile quest for a cure, the press blares it to the world, raising the hopes of AIDS sufferers. Almost every time, however, the initial excitement gives way to doubts, criticism, caveats and, eventually, renewed despair. And when rival scientists, competing to boost their reputations, as well as help humanity, disagree about the validity of a "breakthrough," no one knows whom or what to believe...
...speech entitled "Life Against Death: Judaism after the Holocaust and the Rebirth of Israel," Greenberg depicted the Jewish faith as representative of humanity's quest for equality...
Next comes "The Saint," a story about Margarito Duarte, a Colombian man whose dead daughter's body has miraculously not decayed and who travels to Rome to have her canonized. He spends twenty-two years on his quest, lugging his daughter's corpse around in a cello case, surviving a succession of Popes and battling the insurmountable Vatican bureaucracy. Garcia Marquez's prose renders this grotesque premise poignant. Margarito is the (Latin) American innocent abroad, encountering a world he knows nothing about and which he is not prepared to confront...