Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Golden's advice to long-suffering wives is patience. "Let your husband have his fling," he says. "Tolerate his withdrawal." After the football season is over, Golden reasons, the avid male viewer will return to his family-provided he is not a fanatic for basketball or hockey...
Anti-Snob. Davis is doing his part to break down tiara snobbishness. On the opening night of this season, he coolly appeared in a stage box wearing a sweater. He already has an avid youthful following as a result of his appearances at London's summertime prom concerts, and he hopes to attract the same following to Covent Garden. "I'd like an audience that has less interest in the past and more interest in the present and is an average of 15 years younger...
...titles are titillating-and similar to those on the cover of any pulp magazine. But True To Life is published by Emory University, and it is meant to teach, not tease. Noting that most of the women who went to Emory's birth-control clinic in Atlanta were avid readers of confessions, the clinic's family planners decided to write some of their own. Their stories, like those in True Confession, are about torrid love affairs, but the message is different. In True To Life, women learn not to be victims of circumstance, or of men, but instead...
Double Problem. The remark illustrated the irreverent side of Bunche's personality. He was an avid football and baseball fan, and most of the participants at high-level U.N. meetings probably never suspected that the scraps of paper delivered to him during their sessions sometimes contained nothing more momentous than the scores of games. A very private man, he lived quietly with his family in the Kew Gardens section of New York City...
...inspired Isabella Stewart Gardner, a Boston matron who attended Charles Eliot Norton's fine arts lectures only to become one of the most eccentric patrons of the arts and builder of her own gargoyled museum. And now, the Fogg Art Museum is boasting its proud parentage of another avid student. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. '36, grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Pulitzer prizes...