Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fallen Archery. In Nottingham. England, the sheriff announced that an all-out search was being conducted for thieves who stole the arrow and part of a longbow from a statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle...
...Timbuktu into a trading center and a refuge for scholars. But such medieval empires one by one faded away. Gradually the history of Africa became, not the story of those who lived there, but of men named Livingstone, Stanley, Peters and Rhodes, and of countless anonymous adventurers in search of gold, ivory and slaves...
...course, the American is chiefly concerned in his search with resolving the tension between the imperious demands of his body and the restrictions of society. As in all true epics the goal of the quest is right love, and the Rock 'n' Roller searches for this highest of human expressions. Jimmy Reed shows the semi-existential predicament...
...Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
Forbidding Fruit. Fromm sees the same basis for the great popularity of psychoanalysis since the early 19305, especially in the U.S.: "Here is a middle class for whom life has lost meaning . . . Yet they are in search of a meaning, of an idea to devote themselves to, of an explanation of life which does not require faith or sacrifice." Often, he adds, patients "are much less concerned with being cured than with the exhilarating sensation of having found a spiritual home...