Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest questions I find myself pondering late at night during baseball season are the metaphysical ones. Think about this for a moment...The Red Sox finally complete their 75 year quest for World Champions. Clemens and the rest fight triumphantly past the Blue Jays, the A's and the National League to bring home a series pennant. Boston goes bonkers for a few weeks and hundreds of baseball authors find themselves scurrying desperately for new plots...
...response to a claim that Julius Caesar was too selfish in his quest for power, Shwartz said "he [could not] exist except through the other people be enslave[d]," Caesar was therefore a follower of altruism which, Shwartz said, condones dependency...
Kanzi soon began using the lexigrams as a means of communication, requesting games, treats and activities. Eventually he learned to combine two or more symbols to convey his desires. When, for instance, he wanted to watch a favorite movie, Quest for Fire, he would ask for "Fire TV" (Kanzi also adores Greystoke, a Tarzan movie...
Despite the havoc that Sting's protagonists cause in their quest for connection, they remain doggedly -- and sometimes miserably -- driven by their desire. In It's Probably Me, the narrator clings to a one-sided relationship in a world that's "gone crazy and makes no sense . . . If there's one guy who'd lay down his life for you and die/ It's hard to say it/ I hate to say it, but it's probably me." In an age that has slipped its moral tracks, Sting seems to say, love is the only thing worth fighting...
...quest for national honor pits Harvard women against one other, it does the same for Harvard...