Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of the Bicker period, a sophomore is still receiving a committee, he has probably procured a "first-list bid." If not, and he has good friends whom a certain club is anxious to have, he may receive a "second-list bid" that will get him in if they accept their first-list bids, or if not enough first-list men accept that club's bids to fill its "section." Some sophomores receive bids from a number of clubs. Others receive none...
...commonly called, "the facility." Wilson Lodge was founded last year by the University and supposedly provides "an alternative to the club system" for those who want neither to renounce all social activity for three years of college life nor to pass through the indignity of Bicker and accept membership in one of the seventeen eating clubs. But any one in the university, with the possible exception of the administration, will freely admit that the three-room facility in no sense provides a satisfactory alternative...
Last year, in an attempt to raise Wilson's prestige, Sophomore Vice President Robert Hillier dramatically announced that he would accept no bids from any club, but would join the Lodge and bring "sixty or seventy of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," he stated. "Someone has to make the move to destroy the stigma that will result." Today, Hillier has become a junior member of Quadrangle Club, there are only twenty-one people in the facility, and it, along with Prospect, is a dumping ground...
...Jesuit fathers of his school have seen a boy of talent and want him for their own. The boy passionately wants to accept his vocation, but the devil presents himself in female form-specifically in the guise of a steamy 35-year-old woman, a friend of the family but no friend to chastity. In relatively few lines, Soldati carpenters a cross for his hero. Should he have faith in his passion or give up his passion for the faith? Neither his mother, plagued by desires of her own, his pious grandmother, his innocent playmates, nor his latently homosexual confessor...
...troubled boy than the classic account of the same situation in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. With Irishman Joyce, what stands out authentically is a belief in damnation; with Italian Soldati, it is temptation that is real. Whether or not readers accept the possibility of eternal damnation, Soldati is utterly convincing about the existence of eternal woman...