Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despaired of the sweet grapes of rational humanism? Had the frustration and pressure of not writing another novel as successful as The Naked and the Dead soured him on himself, curling his talent and imagination against itself? Had Aquarius begun to turn into the sort of God seeker who searched for the back door to salvation? The questions were too big for Scorpio. With the courage of his quotations, he had to agree with Leon Daudet. On such matters, "criticism must yield to theology...
...share of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Her poems were written in German, for the most part, and the first comprehensive English edition of her work appeared in 1967. O the Chimneys, published that year, represented about half of her total output. This new volume. The Seeker and Other Poems, completes the translation of her work into English...
...Seeker" ("Die Suchende") is a poem of die Leidbseessene, the "woman possessed by sorrow," who serves as a metaphor for the nation of Israel. On first reading, it seems just too simple to be really good, but the subtlety of the poem only emerges after several exposures. The translation is almost totally literal, and thus loses some of the devices which make the original succeed. An effective alliteration ("die Wande der Wiiste wissen von Liebe") is lost in translation as "the walls of the desert know of love." The strict rendering into unwieldy English detracts immeasurably from the starkness...
...Though each of his five succeeding novels has received fine notices, Moore's highest praises have still been sung subterraneously by a few fond readers and fellow writers who refer his work to each other. For Moore is one of the last of a vanishing breed: the serious seeker who is also a consummate professional...
THAT excerpt from a job seeker's letter points up one of the nation's most perplexing problems as it de-emphasizes the role of defense spending. Deep cutbacks in military and space expenditures are throwing onto the labor market a corps of highly educated and experienced men and women. To their dismay, these individuals are learning that being overskilled-or too narrowly skilled-can be almost as bad as being undereducated or underskilled. The elite jobless, many of them middle-aged men with families, must try to convince skeptical employers that their mastery of such subjects...