Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trade Without Treaty. Siberian development is only part of the broadening trade between Japanese eager to export consumer goods and know-how and Russians avid for capital and technical advice. Japan's trade with Russia doubled last year to $610 million and reached $500 million for the first seven months of this year. Not even the fact that the two nations, which dispute ownership of small islands lying between northernmost Japan and the Russian-held Kuriles, have still not signed a World War II peace treaty seems to slow down the economic get-together. One reason for this...
...bother of naming a cave after a gal, the only polite thing for her to do is sing a little tune in appreciation. Which explains what Pearl Bailey was doing 320 ft. underground in Missouri's Meramec Caverns belting out Hello, Dolly! Off Broadway, Pearlie Mae is an avid spelunker, and she gladly turned up for the dedication of the cavern's "Pearl Bailey Room." As for that cave, which once served as an Underground Railroad stop, it suits Pearl just fine. "That," she pronounced, "is something solid...
...critic is an avid lecher and blurb-confectioner, the other an intellectual exegete who would ponder the "human condition" in a pile of burning rubbish. Just such rubbish is put before both men in a fatuous mystery play. In a way, Hound is a miniaturized travesty of R. and G., since the two critics cannot grasp the play they are watching any better than R. and G. could fathom Hamlet. The critics become unintentionally involved in the action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs...
...finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow for Sonja, who has become an avid modernist. Ah well, they still have 50 paintings left for themselves and all that wall space in their three homes to start filling up again...
...avid collector of modern art, Pompidou as Premier yanked down the fusty old portraits of Richelieu, Colbert and other ancient statesmen and filled his office walls with splashy Soulages, Ernsts and Buffets. Later, he replaced the sculptured nymphs in the garden of his offices with a modern sculpture that Culture Minister André Malreaux had recommended as "unknown but remarkable...