Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 21, 1958, The Crimson ran a lengthy investigative article on "Bicker," the club-selection process at Princeton that smacked of the worst of elitism. Twenty-some years later, Bicker is still alive, although the years have eroded some of its worst offenses. Following are excerpts from "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," by John E. McNees '60, and an update on the system by Elizabeth W. McCarthy...
Although in recent years there has been much talk of phasing out Princeton's eating club system, "the quest" has persisted, albeit markedly different from the 1958 process. The university's admission of women and increases in the number of applicants have affected the eating-club system more than any other factors. Jim Buck, Bicker chairman at Ivy, says...
...after horseback catastrophes, fretted about his wellbeing. Charles' attempts to find a suitable bride-or the attempts by the press to find one for him-resulted in many false starts, much bruised feeling and the occasional contretemps that seems, in retrospect, almost comic. At the time though, his quest was no laughing matter. Anthony Holden, one of his biographers, recalls that Charles became 'obsessed with the subject of marriage' and often noted, with a touch of sadness, that most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings of his parents, the Queen and the Duke...
Perhaps Fellini has become a Don Juan among moviemakers, pursuing some ultimate statement, some mega-image that does not exist and cannot be conjured up by running garage sales of the junk stored in his unconscious. But so intent is the director on this onanistic quest that he has long since forgotten that truth in art arises from the patient accretion of telling detail, distilled observation, and, in maturity, a certain ironic composure. -By Richard Schickel
...into a fight with a policeman, then compounded his legal woes and embarrassed the U.S. team by saying: "The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas." Subsequently he attempted to justify an attack on a sportswriter by explaining: "I thought you were Spanish." In his quest to replace Woody Hayes as the raging bull of college athletics, Knight has repeatedly humiliated his team in public and once grabbed an erring player and threw him onto the bench during a game...