Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case-aide workers are probably not altruistic, but selfish, in the sense that they are very eager to prove something about themselves. But this effort to prove themselves is also an effort to grow and should not be seen in any other light than that. It isn't really selfishness. I guess, to want to grow, but it isn't altruism. They're not going in masochistically...
...Simply great is Gerald Scarfe's papier-mâché bust of Galbraith. TIME'S cover was passed from student to student, studied, discussed and analyzed-an excellent example of contemporary art and an inspiration to eager art students...
...Shuff of Hayden, Stone Inc., has started an eight-week, non-credit course on investments at the city university. Last week, at the first session, he was pleasantly surprised to find his classroom packed with 200 possible accounts. Even unions, with big pension funds and increasingly affluent members, are eager to learn about the market. Reynolds was recently asked by a New York local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to give a four-session course to the brotherhood...
...trustees on their side sought to show they were indeed very concerned about student opinion and very eager to get student ideas on decisions affecting them. "I think that there would have been a great deal less rancor if students had been in on the decision-making for the off-campus tax," one trustee admitted. And both groups agreed strongly when Lynne Gerson, President of Moors, urged that "students should be encouraged to develop an interest in their college before they graduate...
...conferees arrived at no specific solutions to the differences between students and trustees: that was not the real purpose of the discussions. A new phase was established in the dialogue between the two. It is no longer a shouting match. It is now rather a cautious courtship, each eager to show there are no ogres at Radcliffe...