Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This focus has been invaluable to Penningroth in her recovery from last year's injury. In her quest to help Harvard win, Penningroth has been working hard on strength training for the throwing events while taking care to maintain the speed and dexterity required for the jumps and dashes of the pentathalon. Although she is modest about her own abilities, she is openly excited about the team's upcoming season...
Increasingly, Fallows argues, journalists falsely pride themselves for being detached, indeed condescending, about the political process. Instead of trying to help people find common ground on complex issues--abortion, welfare reform, Medicaid--the media play up conflicts and cross fires in a quest for entertaining, diverting drama. "By choosing to present public life as a contest among scheming political leaders, all of whom the public should view with suspicion, the press helps bring about that very result...
...longer than the usual fifteen minutes allotted the average pop-art rebel. For a man whose work seemed hopelessly mired in subculture, Mapplethorpe bridged a lot of cultural gaps. His most recent incarnation as a kind of Ansel Adams for the East Village set well served the artist's quest for superstardom. Familiarity may breed contempt, but it also tends to breed, well, familiarity. The socially acceptable Mapplethorpe, particularly his sedate though well-rendered floral photographs, is still cropping up in respectable, and highly visible, places...
Last Thursday's rally was certainly inspiring. Roughly 700 students gathered to hear speakers ranging from Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) President Vincent Pan '95-'96 to Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth E. Reeves '72 support the students in their quest for "empowerment." We would like to reiterate our support for PBHA and compliment them on a well-organized and publicized rally which addressed the important issue of student voice and power...
...herself as queen, but would like to be "queen of people's hearts." What does that mean? A Miss England title? Since when does a woman who always cried out for more privacy start looking to win the media popularity contest? How noble is a quest for public support of her personal position over the consideration of any of the other parties involved, particularly since they are her children's family...