Word: avidity
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Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...
...winners like Bill Rodgers and Gayle Barron, the garage was a friendly holding area--a chance to enjoy the smiles and congratulations of onlookers, the avid attention of the media, and the welcomed trophies and plaques...
...avid reader of The Crimson, I wish to express my dissatisfaction over the lack of sports coverage for subvarsity and club sports. I think The Crimson's sports coverage is generally satisfactory except for this one omission. It may well be a fault of the Athletic Department in not informing people of subvarsity sports events, but I think some effort should be made to give the hardworking participants of subvarsity, club, and intramural athletics more print. I realize that there is limited space in the daily paper for complete sports coverage of this kind, but even if an occasional article...
Well EXCUSE ME, but I know where avid fans can see all the basketball action they can endure. And if spectating is not very appealing, they can step onto the court and take a few shots of their...
...these basement Edisons, part-time tinkerers and others who own computers for personal or professional reasons who will most probably realize the vast potential of the silicon chip for the consumer. They are an avid, eager-beaver breed, anxious to share technological insights and applications with other chip fanatics. Computerniks have already formed some 400 informal clubs, and these are growing rapidly. Electronic stores are proliferating like fast-(brain)food outlets. They, too, operate as semi-clubs, where employees are as interested in yakking as in selling. Even Montgomery Ward now offers, for $399, a home computer...