Word: seeker
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...ordinary sun seeker soon found it almost impossible even to reach the supposedly public shoreline. At the accessible public beaches, concession owners, backed by musclemen euphemistically described as lifeguards, forced tourists off the sands unless they were willing to pay for beach mattresses, umbrellas or change-of-costume cabins...
...perceives a great uneasiness that maybe all this knowledge is a bad thing, that man is necessarily being forced into a moral dilemma. Being a rationalist, I cannot believe that it is better to be an ostrich than to be the thing that most distinguishes man from ape, a seeker after knowledge for the sake of itself. Misuse of knowledge results from ignorance. To believe otherwise is to believe that being out of contact with reality is less likely to lead to bad effects than is sanity. If man fails the evolutionary test, it will be because he knew...
...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...