Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...habit of mind" makes its classrooms crackle. Delighted with his students' "seriousness," one former Princeton professor hardly misses "the elaborate military deference found at Princeton, where the men would address you as 'sir' with an undertone of contempt." Engagement with issues in turn makes the students eager for social action and dissent. In the 21-campus Boston area, it often seems that every peace march or civil rights rally is led by Brandeis students. The student paper, The Justice, is perhaps the most caustically anti-administration campus newspaper in the country. "It's hard...
...fortnight ago: "Our neutrality is simply a question of our having undertaken not to join any military alliance and not to allow foreign troops on Austrian territory. It goes without saying that we feel ourselves to be a part of the Western world." As such, the Austrians are eager to have "an economic connection" with the booming European
Flocking to Australia's first major auction of the works of Portraitist (and TIME Cover Artist) William Dobell, eager Sydney art lovers anted up $116,730 for 36 paintings that Dobell himself had originally peddled for a total of $1,300. Conceding that "two-or maybe five-of them are pictures of which I am not ashamed," Dobell was nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored...
...Intruders. Crosby, Eisenhower & Co. may soon be sharing the water with less affluent but equally eager sportsmen...
...while both Jorge and Viridiana are away from home, the lower orders rise up and breach the walls of privilege. Eager as rats they scatter through the house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths...