Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hated them so much; we were so eager to answer their questions. And soon, our world was gone. Some of us became Marxists, and some of us became capitalists; we talked about our past, as I am talking now, as though it were the present. We gave ourselves up, and we are left with a feeling of being lost. Perhaps every class feels that way, perhaps every person feels that way when he is 22. That does not make it any less important to us; it is the first time we have felt that way, and it is impossible...
...thirties you guys used to intervene a lot in Latin America. What does the historical establishment have to say to that?" The professor, eager now. This is education...
...issues themselves, strained further the established procedures, as well as the relations between the Faculty and the group of men who came to be called "the Administration." The former may have appeared, in the eyes of the latter (and of a part of the Faculty itself) more eager for change under pressure than for orderly procedures and deliberations. The Administration, in turn, appeared to many Faculty members too defensive and too slow in (and also insufficiently staffed for) dealing with the new issues. The debate over the disciplinary consequences of Paine Hall revealed the growing distance between a large section...
...right place, as the young Cole quickly realized, was New York, whose prosperous merchants were eager to purchase paintings for their new mansions and whose intellectual community had already fostered the talents of William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Nature was in fashion. A speaker exhorted the nascent American Academy of Fine Arts in 1825: "The genius of your country points you to its stupendous cataracts and its ranging mountains. There, where nature needs no fictitious charms, place on the canvas the lovely landscape, and adorn our houses with American prospects and American skies." Cole may well...
...manifesto means that the London recommendations may not win easy acceptance at the World Council's next Central Committee meeting in August. After he returned to New York last week, General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council wondered whimsically whether the black militants would be as eager to take over the church's debts as its assets. Even the place where it all began was not inclined to court more trouble. Although Riverside Church has promised to establish a fund for the disadvantaged and endorsed the principle of reparations, it also served a court order...