Word: avidity
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...second important factor in Yardfest’s popularity was that it was free, a must if you’re really going to have a little something for everyone. Undergrads could come and go as they pleased with no financial consequences, which meant that avid Ben Folds fans could close in on the stage and relatively disinterested students could still attend, enjoying the concert as background music while they caught up with friends over dinner...
...avid sailor, Stone was an “extraordinary” supporter of Harvard athletics as both a donor and a fan, Harry Parker, longtime men’s heavyweight crew coach, said last night...
...remaining lay, pledge celibacy, live together in one of about 1,700 sex-segregated "centers" and extend their training to a degree rivaling a priest's--all while holding day jobs, with most of their pay devolving to the group. That near cloistered life produces the group's most avid, satisfied members and its bitterest dropouts. Opus steers a small number of members toward the priesthood, and they exert considerable influence on the lay majority...
...TIME's article on George Lucas and the new digital age in moviemaking was especially poignant for me [March 20]. My father worked as a technician at Technicolor for more than 30 years and helped with the production of several Disney animated movies. Now my daughter (an avid Star Wars fan) is helping digitally restore the Disney films her grandfather worked on. When I was growing up, I was so proud to see the Technicolor logo on the screen. And today when I see my daughter's name in the credits, I am just as proud. I don't understand...
...social cauldron of high school weighed on her. She didn't get along with the cheerleaders on the yearbook staff. And her avid interest in Stephen King novels and TV shows about forensics earned her a false reputation, she says, as a glum goth girl. So she started ditching class, barreling through the Indiana countryside alone in her Dodge Neon, blasting her favorite song, The Ghost of You, by My Chemical Romance--a song, as she puts it, about missed opportunities and regret...