Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuit of beauty, the attainment by "great souls" of the maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
...third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of exiles and refugees.*... Economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and cooperative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man. . . . Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End . . . the transcendent Godhead...
John Harvard, veteran, has reason to wonder at the palace on the Charles these days. Prewar registration days were a far cry from the maddening crowd that thundered through Memorial Hall on the first leg of their pursuit of a formal education. Course attendance ballooned to new levels as cozy discussion courses became monstrous lecture courses. House dining halls continued to look like Army mess halls. Laundry salesmen and cleaning contractors, once frenetic in their hunt for prospects, assumed an unbecoming coyness. As for getting books, John found texts unobtainable and the lines interminable. In fact, John found lines everywhere...
Howard Hughes, one month out of a Los Angeles hospital where his plane crash put him, and still looking like a stretcher case (see cut), took to the air again, flew to Manhattan. His errand: pursuit of his $5 million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
...heir to all civilization and all smooth-running modern gadgets, the 20th Century citizen, goes to strange places in pursuit of happiness and self-improvement. Every year he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on fortune tellers, medical quacks, "lovelorn experts" of press and radio, palmists, mail-order muscle builders, numerologists, diet faddists, nerve pills, perfumed unguents...