Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never After tells of an almost middleaged couple (the husband is a market-analysis man and the wife a Congresswoman) who seek a weekend's rest on Long Island and find instead two days of hysteria. Contributing to the hysteria are the husband's daughter by an earlier marriage, his young market-analysis partner, and the market-analysis partner's wife...
Oglesby questions the peace we seek as the methods of the search. Is the freedom of the underdeveloped countries really coincident with the profits of American investment? Is our support of right-wing dictatorships really conducive to peace in the long run, or will it lead to worse social conditions, more repression, more Communists, and more violent revolutions...
Curry's supporters raised other problems. How should a city manager be selected? Should the man seek the job (as DeGuglielmo had done), or should the job seek the man? But these issues, as well as most others, were lost in hours of debate over parliamentary procedure and the details of political dealing. Lost also, it seems, were some of the deeper structural causes of the controversy...
...years we see a period of experimentation that gives us a clue to many of his later ambitions. His interest in historical themes, and in the extensive anatomical research (see below) that forms the groundwork for that genre, is clear in these works. But in America artists had to seek their bread and butter in portraiture, and Copley was forced to abandon his ambitions as a painter of history until his emigration to England...
...only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong drive is being conducted in the New York legislature to reform the state...