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Word: quests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pals indulge in such mellow old youth-novel capers as fornication, abortion, homosexuality and illicit Negro-white love affairs. These goings-on take place at or near an Ivy Leaguish college named Arden that physically resembles Cornell, but the true locale is hipsterland, and the hero's quest for identity is as manic as if he were looking for a hypodermic needle in a haystack. Stylistically, Author Gutwillig tries to evoke Scott Fitzgerald but merely invokes him. His novel's value is as a minority report of a post-Korean war generation that is less interested in revolting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Old Young Men | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

John E. McNees '60 of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kansas, has been awarded the 1958 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing, for his CRIMSON feature on "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," an essay on Bicker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNees' Bicker Story Wins Prize | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

...humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only of a God who is "omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable.'' Aron seeks only "a vision of highest fantasy" and his quest leads to the abomination of the Golden Calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Espresso. In Wilmington, Del.. Walton Connelly, in quest of a cup of coffee, rode his motorcycle into the Toddle House parking lot, lost control, crashed uninjured through a 9-by-4-ft. glass window, got a cup of coffee free-after he agreed to pay damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...quest of fortune ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: End of the Line | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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