Word: avidity
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Lady Chattelley's Miner. Here began an affair right out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. "I did not fancy myself as a haggard, rabid, avid randy dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin...
...Even when I took to reading the United Nations Report to large crowds," Abrams said, "the Russians had a difficult time believing that a whole series of events happened in Hungary which their government had deliberately chosen to hide from them. But they listened with avid interest to every word. And from all the later reports and reactions, I gathered that they passed the word along the grape-vine...
...hopes and aims: in the event that none of the new presidential hopefuls seems to have a commanding lead, might not seasoned old gladiator Stevenson be sent out in 1960 for yet another battle? Gossiped Chicago Tribune Columnist Herb Lyon: "Some of Adlai Stevenson's most avid Chicago followers are plotting to get him to try again...
Calm v. Passion. Arthur Winner marries again. Clarissa is tall, athletic and thirtyish, an avid latecomer to the art of love. The hour of that art which the couple share in Cozzens' pages has not been paralleled for clinical candor in U.S. fiction since Edmund Wilson singed the censors with Memoirs of Hecate County. Yet Lawyer Winner has a more demanding love-the law. The law is his passion precisely because it rules out passion. He is comforted by its seductive repose, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions or enthusiasms of emotion...
...when the Supreme Court's decision on school integration was handed down, Frederick John Kasper found his cause, headed into the Southland to stir the mob. Ironically, Kasper did not get a rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity. His actions make him a double agent. He might as well be working for the other side...