Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Randy Sparks, founder of the New Christy Minstrels and an avid folk music researcher, elected to name his group after the 19th century minstrels because "they were the first big group to sing in harmony and to break the ensemble down into individual acts...
...spectacles imaginable. They trot out from the wings, line up playfully, start right feet tapping in heavy unison, and burst into song. Their music is a bland mix of broad harmonies, familiar tunes, corny humor and just enough of the folk music spirit to cash in on the most avid adult record buyer-the man whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with...
...wife, five children and inevitable golden retriever are all part of his headmasterly charm. A daily fixture on the playing fields of Exeter, he is famous for scrimmaging with the football team, skating with the hockey team, coaching the crew from his single shell on the Squamscott River. An avid sailor, he races off Cape Cod in his ancestrally named yawl Arbella. He may have slowed down a bit since 1961, when a flying hockey puck almost blinded one of his eyes, but he still plays tennis and beats 90% of the faculty...
20th Century Scholarship. Today, with bright U.S. collegians avid for graduate study, the Rhodes plan is losing some of its glamour. One Oxford don argues that "there can be no doubt that a Marshall Scholarship is better than a Rhodes. I don't say the boys are of better caliber; the scholarship itself is better attuned to the 20th century. Today a scientist might well want to avoid Oxford...
...soft on grades and work for reasons that range from fondness for overworked students to earnest boosterism ("We must stimulate interest in Shakespeare"). Such benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans" (homemaking), "Nuts and Sluts'' (abnormal...