Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book Rafferty wrote: "The quest for the Golden Fleece has been crowded out by the visit of Tom and Susan to the zoo. Jackie pursues his insipid goal of a ride in the district garbage truck with good old crotchety Mr. Jones while the deathless ride of Paul Revere goes unwept, unhonored and unsung. Modern education has debunked the hero to make room for the jerk." Richardson complimented Rafferty on having "the finest mind of the 12th century." Rafferty accused Richardson of "left-leaning liberalism" and being soft on life adjustment...
...turn out to be a kindly rubber-stamp device with virtually no interest in whether she majored in English or physics. Nor did anyone seem to care care whether she rounded off her four years by marrying an eligible Ivy Leaguer or by scuttling off to graduate school in quest of a Ph.D. No one, except her roommate writing a gen ed paper or her parents paying tuition, ever asked her to define her concept of women's education or describe her vision of woman's role in the world. In the fall of 1958, no one had yet suggested...
...turned to gaze mournfully at the green beast that had sheltered him briefly. And then his heart missed a beat: for impaled on the horn of the animal, and flapping gently in the breeze, was a large piece of paper. He had reached, he thought, the end of his quest...
Harvard's varsity baseball squad goes down river to MIT this afternoon at 3 p.m. in quest of its tenth straight victory. The game will be the first of four the team must play before the week...
...Jane," he said unenthusiastically, not wishing to be delayed in his quest of The Bronze Rhinoceros...