Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open door policy with a vengeance. Every meal, they relate, included two or more impromptu guests and sometimes a roomful; on Sundays the house overflowed with visitors. For all this I admire their stamina though I wonder how they kept their sanity. New Volunteers anywhere are usually so eager for friends that they practically pull people in through the windows, with the result that they accumulate a large number of urchins, hangers-on and people looking for gifts--"leeches," as a Volunteer who served in Iran referred to them. (In my own experience, the individuals one would most respectful...
Teaching is hard enough. The obstacles to extra-curricular projects is overwhelming. The Nationals are not eager to help themselves. For the volunteer, 'there is a crisis of commitment. The answer may be to make the job easier. cursed with a too reasonable turn of mind; he cannot stop asking himself what good any particular action would serve. This is the genuine crisis of commitment for Peace Corps volunteers.... If there is an answer, it is to make the volunteer's job easier, not harder--to give him a task where he will have a stake in commitment...
...formed Playboy Press is thriving; last year, it sold $1,000,000 worth of books, most of them containing reprints from the magazine. At present, Playboy's staff is moving into larger quarters in Chicago's venerable Palmolive Building, leased for 63 years for $2,700,000. Thanks to eager press-agents, the building's famed beacon, whose beam can be seen 500 miles away, has been renamed the Bunny Beacon...
Hefner may have run the Marilyn Monroe shots without her consent, but now he has no problem finding big-name actresses eager to appear in the magazine. The album so far includes Carroll Baker, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Andress, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Elsa Martinelli and Susannah York. Nor is there any trouble getting unknown girls to pose; hundreds apply. Sometimes, though, there is a problem in making the copy that goes with them interesting enough. For instance, the latest Miss January, Playboy said, would love to be a nurse. She was "Albert Schweitzer's fairest disciple. She has read each...
...each. With potential riches even greater, prudent movie executives recognize the need to ration their film stockpiles instead of depleting them too fast. Because old movies have become such valuable-and easily disposable-assets, Hollywood's film companies are particularly wary of takeover bids by outsiders eager to turn a quick profit...