Word: quests
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...have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny Agutter their servant. If plans work for bringing the show to Broadway, they ought...
Perhaps the most quixotic quest of all is the faltering effort to establish soccer as a popular American sport. The Major Indoor Soccer League is still limping along with twelve teams, but the North American Soccer League, which played outdoors, disbanded this year. Even so, Peter Bridgwater, majority owner of the N.A.S.L.'s San Jose Earthquakes, is keeping his club together and hopes that a new league will start up. Explains Earthquakes Executive Fred Guzman: "It's a civic matter, like popping for a modern art museum. I mean, what's the satisfaction of owning a string of coin-operated...
...U.D.F. leaders have been put under surveillance or detained, actions that are reminiscent of the treatment the A.N.C. suffered before it was declared illegal in 1960. Earlier this year, Botha offered to release the imprisoned Mandela if he would forswear the use of violence in the quest to gain black rule. Though he had been behind bars for 23 years, Mandela said...
...most countries, women are still hampered in their quest for equality by cultural, religious and social tradition. Despite laws to the contrary, for example, female circumcision and wife beating are commonly practiced in the Third World. In India, which banned dowry systems in 1961, just last year thousands of cases were reported of husbands torturing their wives to extract dowry payments or even murdering them to marry other women. "I saw the body of a girl who had been bound, sprinkled with oil and then burned" by her husband, said NGO Delegate Ranjana Kumari, a political scientist at the Center...
While Madick is only a freshman, she was still able to feed off the adrenaline associated with the quest for redemption after Harvard’s two pivotal losses against Brown last year...