Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When encountering reading which seem difficult to grasp, we give up and quickly place blame on the author for convoluted reasoning or poor writing, instead of redoubling our efforts to understand the argument or develop a more sophisticated critique. Rather than engage controversial authors, we are only too eager to brand them as racist, ignorant, sexist or enmeshed in the dominant culture--and we suffer because we ignore their insights...
...acquainted, but instead seek out that which is most unfamiliar. Don't become enamored of your own world view but instead humble yourself in the face of the vast scholarship to which you will soon lose access. In your academic work, be quick to contemplate, slow to conclude and eager to traverse unfamiliar territory...
...cowed captive of the country he had fought for more than 14 years. As he sat strapped into the seat of a jet en route to Turkey, his face dripped with sweat and his eyes blinked nervously while he told his captors how much he "loved" Turkey and how eager he was to "render services" to them. Then he requested medicine for his heartburn...
Siskel went on to tell these eager listeners about how his life was headed along the treacherous path of "The Tube"--"You know, Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, big job in the city and retirement in Westchester by age 40," as he put it. Yet Siskel came to realize the dangers associated with this lifestyle, in particular, the rushing through life-altering events without taking the time to appreciate them. Life as a journalist, and not as a lawyer, was much more to his suiting. The Chicago Tribune quoted him in 1995 as saying, "I still have my enthusiasm...
...agood day or a bad day?" He then added that thename of the supposed translator was a pun,"Haarhuis" substituting for "whore-house" inrecognition of the darker side of the geisha'sworld. "Arnold Rusoff," far from endowing aprofessorship at NYU, is actually a dear friend ofGolden's, eager for his 15 minutes of fame...