Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Culver asked Bob Hardy rhetorically, "How could you be happier?" In the other, a knee-high New Haven autograph-seeker inquired of a sophomore in a top-coat, "Are you a football player?" The sophomore was Bill Meigs...
Many students throughout the University are sure that at least one Harvard professor is new using subversive tactics. Even the most hardened gut seeker in Raphael Demos philosophy classes finds that the lecturer has sneaked across the rudiments of western philosophy to an intellectually calloused mind. I can't understand it, one freshman groaned. "Every time I look at a table or a cat, or a telephone. I wonder what its prefection is in Plato's world of forms...
...mire of wishful thinking, Dean Inge lifts the whole field of religion. He is a fearless seeker after spiritual truth...
...Boston Traveler's Columnist Neal O'Hara is not a seeker after journalistic dynamite; his daily feature, "Take It From Me," is an innocuous collection of jokes, quizzes, fragments of news and "Thoughts While Shaving," and it is published on the comic page. O'Hara said he had no intention of stirring up a hornet's nest when he reflected (while shaving) last month that both Harvard's newly elected President Nathan Marsh Pusey and Senator Joe McCarthy live in the town of Appleton, Wis. (seat of Lawrence College, which Pusey has served as president...
...religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such a hell of a time?" For the America he visited only once, Philosopher Joad reserved special acid: "What a genius Americans have for coming into war late, on the winning side." A lifelong fame-seeker, (most famous remark: "Thank God, I am famous!"), Joad talked students of the Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later...