Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harlan's personality to fit the huge shoes of her narrative voice is Jones's great accomplishment in The Healing. The stylistic design optimally supports the narrative's broad theme of constructing a personal identity in a world bent on its destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might...
McCain thought so. The Arizonan is known in politics mostly for his high-minded legislative failures--among them his dogged and so far futile quest to reform the way political campaigns are financed. On tobacco, McCain would again have public opinion behind him, but he also had to please an array of constituencies: Democrats, Republicans, the White House, the industry, plaintiffs' lawyers and hard-line public health groups represented by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and former fda boss David Kessler...
...also likely to be, especially in the Islamic world, a more fierce religious challenge that rejects individual liberties as well as the materialism that comes with capitalism. Finally, there is the radical environmentalism of the Green movements, which could start seeming less radical and more urgent if the quest for economic growth that is inherent in capitalism continues to threaten the health of the planet. To counter this, humans will have to become the first species to learn how to control its own population growth...
...survives only in irredeemably tarnished form, can the force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi...
...Crimson begins its quest for its first ever Ivy crown at home when it takes the field against Ancient Eight rivals Yale and Brown in two doubleheaders...