Word: avidity
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...psychologist and as an avid amateur chess player, I found your Essay listing ridiculous "psychological" reasons for playing chess offensive on both counts...
...seemingly unending series of magazine articles, not to mention six semiautobiographical books, Stravinsky had appeared as the most wickedly witty, sprightly, feisty and avid of old men. In fact, suggests Libman, Stravinsky was something both more and less than that in the twelve years during which, as his personal manager and sometime member of the Stravinsky menage, she knew the composer. For one thing, he was more sparing with words, less waspish as a polemicist. For another, the lady maintains, many of the words were not the composer's at all; they were Craft's. As she sees...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...
...lange of spinning theatrical events that dazzle the eye and rivet the ear. Musically, when Davies is not weaving in themes from Taverner, his treatment of the usual choirs of the orchestra has enough richness and fireworks (ignited in masterly fashion by Conductor Edward Downes) to placate the most avid devotees of Richard Strauss. Davies' hair-raising special effects-massed percussion, squealing clarinets, even the grating of a knife grinder-should be enough to titillate John Cage...
Throughout this distinctive musical and literary collaboration, Craft projected to a wide audience the by now familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-sprightly as a grasshopper, wickedly witty, avid for new words, new ideas and new music right up to his death at 88. By general agreement, Craft did Stravinsky and the world a favor of Boswellian proportions...