Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson fell short in its quest to recapture the cup from the Brown Bears yesterday in a trimeet at Franklin Park in Boston, 55-65 (the low score wins in cross-country running...
...centuries. Its advocates, known as Faylasufs, believed that the God of Greek philosophy was identical to Islam's. "Instead of seeing God as a mystery," Armstrong writes, "the Faylasufs believed he was reason itself." But they also acknowledged the chaos and disorder of the universe and recognized that their quest for ultimate meaning was a difficult one. Indirectly, the Faylasufs influenced such medieval thinkers as the Jewish sage Maimonides and the greatest Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas...
...easy in an age of anomie, symbolized by handgun violence, hip-hop quality and an MTV attention span. Human kind cannot bear very much reality, T.S. Eliot wrote, but it also cannot endure too much emptiness and desolation. In her book's dying fall, Armstrong suggests that the ancient quest for life's meaning will...
Cohen meets some interesting people on his "cross-country quest for a generation." He brings the reader along as he visits with Dirk, a New York artist and dope dealer; Dexter, a Louisiana politician who is in it for the money; and David, a Korean-American who works in his parents grocery store in South Central Los Angeles. It's wonderful simply to have vicarious conversations with these people, to hear about their lives and dreams and work and loves and fears...
Ross Perot continued his demagogic quest for attention, but every time he was asked for specific numbers to back up his grandiose plans, he said he had left them at home. Seems he didn't expect journalists and talk show hosts to actually ask him questions. By the end of the summer, even Jay Leno was challenging Perot's jingoistic race-baiting...