After Mr. Dierks, 63, and his wife, 57, both learned they had cancer, they began looking for something easier to manage than their aging two-story house on Main Street.
So, when he began looking for something to buy in the spring of 2003, he told his brokers to look only within a 20-block radius of his Orchard Street rental.
But rock music was going through an uneven evolution, and a generation that grew up with the Coasters and Chuck Berry, the Motown sound and then the British invasion, began looking for something to turn to.
When the protest movement faded, leaders and cadres, often disillusioned or burned out, began looking for something else, something that wasn't a cop‐out, something that had social purpose, something that made them feel they were atoning for their society's mistakes.
But once her young daughter started spending weekends with her ex-husband and the social obligations of coupledom fell away, she began looking for something to keep her busy during the hours between Friday afternoon and the ticking of the "60 Minutes" clock on Sunday.
At art school, in a country that had just achieved its independence, the curriculum was almost entirely Western: only in his last year did he realize that he felt restless, and began looking for "something that had more relationship to me, as someone growing up in an African country".
