Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avid fisherman who now lives in the hills of Berkeley. California. Taj is most concerned about people's lack of concern for the land. "Nobody's paying any attention to the ecology...People have no respect for the land, and that's because they don't have any vested interest in it...Folk music was developed by people who wanted to maintain the tradition of the land because they had to work it all the time. You've got to have a song to work the land. That's why I think that sometimes certain people from Northern Europe...
While music may be the driving force of Lefkowitz's life, he has never been limited by his main passion. An avid, "indiscriminate" reader, he never seriously considered going to a conservatory. "In high school I thought I was interested in science," he said. "Here I discovered that it was really a superficial interest. But there's nothing really that I could find at a conservatory that I can't find here if I look...
...innocence" were Pepys' dominant qualities, counters Ollard, the arch defender, while allying himself to another camp of Pepys interpreters, the 20th century aesthetes. For them, the true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly Pepys was an avid collector of fine-bound volumes, which he arranged according to their height rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete, as if he collected...
Delivery Boy. As a boy, Jackson was a poor athlete, an avid Boy Scout and a skillful debater. At 13, he won a prize from the Everett Herald for diligence as a newspaper delivery boy. Its comic page chronicled the adventures of a newspaper reporter named Scoop, who was the inspiration for Jackson's nickname. His newspaper route included Everett's red-light district, where Jackson was appalled to find prominent men patronizing whorehouses, gambling dens and speakeasies. Indeed, in his commencement speech at his high school graduation in 1930, Jackson primly lectured his audience about the evils...
Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...