Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reveled in man and beast alike. He was an avid lifetime member of the San Diego Zoo. If he was embittered at the failure of revolution and the waning of his own popularity, he did not show it. His own life-robust, naysaying, always provoking-was the best refutation of his theories. Tolerance never repressed...
Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck...
...himself in the four great inebriant soliloquies; he is addressing questions to his tormented soul, his troubled mind, his impotent will, and the sultry air resonates. In his one-character play, Krapp's Last Tape, Beckett took some notice of this problem. Between his senile musings and avid munching on a banana, Krapp turns on a tape recorder that relates all the romantic ardor and wistful yearnings of an earlier self. Thus, a kind of dialogue, and a very poignant one, is established and successfully maintained...
...months ago, that kind of bribery and corruption would have been unthinkable in China's strictly collectivized, rigidly austere commercial system. But of late many Chinese bureaucrats and factory managers involved in foreign trade have shown themselves readily disposed to partake of the myriad goodies that can accompany avid salesmanship. Officials who once would have rejected anything more expensive than a lapel pin now eagerly accept, and often solicit, valuable gratuities-everything from sophisticated machinery and heavy vehicles for their factories, to electronic calculators, cassette tape recorders, TV sets and even limousines for themselves...
There is a certain irony in the University's avid solicitation of funds from students whom it has patronized and ignored in the past. But seniors should not underestimate the seriousness of the appeal or the opportunity for an effective statement that it provides. The Corporation understands the language of money very well, much better than it seems to understand the language of "reasoned debate...