Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally you encounter "yes" votes, or people eager to read the literature. Once or twice, a family is divided and a row ensues as soon as the door is shut. "Why did you even take that stuff?" shouts the wife, and the family is in for a morning of Vietnam debate...
...used in the war. None of the MIGs have yet flown out of China against U.S. planes. One reason is that they would not have enough fuel to maneuver long over Hanoi and Haiphong, which are over 300 miles from China. Another is that the Chinese are not eager to provoke the U.S. into attacking China as a sanctuary for fleeing North Vietnamese planes...
Perhaps the Suzuki method will in time overcome the U.S. shortage. Until it does, chances are that more and more orchestras will look to the Far East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will...
...case that may set a pattern, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has just laid down guidelines designed to reduce the risks assumed by a testifying defendant. In the first place, the court noted, the nature of the previous conviction is important. Eager prosecutors often try to drag in everything on the record. In the future, said the court, it might be well to restrict previous crimes mentioned to those "which reflect adversely on a man's honesty and integrity." Acts of violence, the opinion continued, do not seem to have much to do with...
...union between the two churches. Nonetheless, Pope and Patriarch twice spoke with each other about such common problems as secularization, peace and war for more than an hour-the longest length of time they have had together. Once again, the two churchmen made it clear that they are uncommonly eager for unity...