Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought the ssytem close to the lives of students, but because it demanded explanation. There is a great need on the left for rational explanation, for ways of looking at events and people that make sense. And the War did not make sense as a momentary aberration, a quirk in an otherwise benevolent foreign policy. The hectic pace of politics in the sixties and the obvious ineptitude (or was it ineptitude?) of those in power forced a radical analysis on these students...
...John Quirk won his third consecutive race to lead the Yardlings over a supposedly tough Penn team, avenging last year's white vash. The Crimson took the top four places and might have had fifth if John Elliott had not sprained an ankle after one mile. "I suspected we had a great team and now I'm convinced of it." coach Pappy Hunt said...
...Crimson freshmen urned in two more lopsided victories. crushing Providence. 15-50. and U Mass, 17-45. John Quirk won again for the Yardlings, improving his time by 25 seconds to 15:15, to move closer to the record of 15:30 set by Ben wilson of M.I.T...
...mile point that was more than accomplished. Marshall Jones led his teammates to the two-mile spot in 9:42, and moments later, John Quirk went ahead on his way to a 30-yard victory. His time, 16:10, was 20 seconds better than Koerner's winning time last fall...
Wrong Dream. They might be, except that Condon loses his balance and -odd for him-goes off the shallow end. For the first time in eight novels, he wavers from his delightful obsession that maniacal rigidity is civilization's main motivating force and therefore the only human quirk worth a novelist's attention. He begins to worry solemnly about what went wrong with the American Dream. One of the results is a lengthy mumble that goes like this...