Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oust club members, what can we do with them? Rehabilitation is too tedious and painful. Also, we have no guarantee that the new and improved ex-members would not revert to their evil ways. The importance of our quest allows no room for error...
Lewis Percy yearns for the company of women. Too timid to expect them to love him, he aspires merely to their tolerance. Trusting and giving, guided by a "lasting conviction that women were a congenial and compassionate sex," he embarks on a quixotic quest for female companionship, only to experience shattering disappointment at the hands of those he seeks to love. Lewis' Bildungsroman is an ironic twist on the 19th century romantic novels he studies in his library carrel. This hero struggles for placid domesticity; it is the women who behave like cads...
...Lord's quest to learn how a whole generation could have "thought it glorious to humiliate their elders . . . to report on family and friends; to storm strangers' homes; to hurt fellow Chinese without consideration of sex or age; to maim and kill" netted her two interviews with former members of the Red Guard. One of them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized...
...worry. Silber's quest to resuscitate the state's economy and morale, which have suffered under Governor Michael Dukakis, will not be boring. A long-shot candidate for the Democratic nomination, Silber promises to use the same radical surgery on state government that he has exercised for the past 19 years to reform faculty and policies at B.U. His platform stresses tough budget choices but a big boost for education...
...inquiries about his past. Germaine's mother seemed not to care. But after her father's death, Germaine, best known as the author of the 1970 feminist treatise The Female Eunuch, embarked on an arduous three-year investigation of the man she never did call Daddy in life. Her quest started with the few details he had supplied to the army on enlistment, and it took her from Australia, where she grew up, to Europe, India and Africa, and down several exotic blind alleys...