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Word: seeker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is much in this play to delight the seeker after hidden meanings, for Aiken ignores neither symbols nor that interrelation of characters and events which suggests more than appears on the surface. The surgeon who bends over Arcularis as he lies on the operation table reappears as another passenger on the dream voyage. And this passenger is the owner of the chisel which Arcularis likens to a scalpel, and with which he tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Conrad Aiken Revivifies "Mr. Arcularis" | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...stumble) into two broad categories, desirable and undesirable. The former are merely those of the latter who have become bearable either by their absence or by their roommate's. The species is varied, but general characteristics run through it. These similarities and variations must be classified if the roommate-seeker is to make an intelligent choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Bedfellows | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...artist had wished to avoid in truding on their lives. Hopper's own unalterable reserve makes him as surprising, in an age of clattering egos, as a tree growing in the middle of Main Street. He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...answer to his critics, such as Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '28 who branded him as a publicity-seeker and called his confiscation motion "probably the most asinine proposal ever brought before a legislative body," Vellucci has this to say: "Sometimes administrators become procrastinators--that goes both for Dr. Pusey and for city manager Curry. Sometimes they intend to do something, but they don't get around to doing it. The only way to shake up the administration of Harvard is to use the tactics I have been using...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Hell of a Fuss | 10/20/1956 | See Source »

Hail to Sol Randall: iconoclast, philosopher, non-seeker after the ranking deity of the U.S.: Success. Sol correctly senses the futility of making a success out of marriage with a social-climbing, materialistic female, so he faces the breakup without regret. . . . The ills that beset the Randalls can be found to a greater or lesser degree in so many U.S. marriages and in Yolaine's edict: "No money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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