Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time Eakins was reproached for being too scientific, not artistic enough, though "a builder on the bedrock of sincerity, and an all-sacrificing seeker after the truth." Their freedom from "poetic" conventions is, of course, just what makes his best paintings so moving to a modern eye. In them, system and nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail...
...first international-class man of letters. He taught much of the 19th century how to write. He gave America a metaphysics: he sought to join the nation's intellect to its power. Emerson sanctified America's ambitions. Like the nation, he was, he said, "an endless seeker, with no past at my back." He was the wonder-rabbi of Concord, Mass., our bishop, the mystic of our possibilities...
When he hung around after the discovery that he had accepted an expensive Oriental rug from a favor seeker, sweet old Ike lowered the boom. He sent Party Chairman Meade Alcorn to push Adams out the door...
...American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that he is in the U.S. legally...
Because of this shotgun approach to issues and enemies. Nader has often been called irresponsible and an attention seeker. Ralph de Toledano, in his critical study of Nader. Hit & Run, says...