Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal to donate his artwork for the society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what would be even more visually encompassing than to have a complete room walled...
...over again. I wondered whether this adventure was a good idea. The bus delivered me to New York's Port Authority with just enough time to change into more respectable clothing in the definitely proletarian bathroom. I hailed a cab and rode across town to a French restaurant, eager to meet Shih-yu Wang, the young consultant I would be shadowing for the next 24 hours...
...problem I have found at Harvard is that, unlike Sherri, Harvard students focus on the what instead of the who. Not only are we eager to know if someone plays lacrosse, acts in the Ex or is a Fox man, we thrive on knowing. Knowing if someone sports a Crimson Key T-shirt or sings with the sexiness of an Opportune, we can easily group them into superficial categories of cool or uncool. Are they worthy of a nod, a quick hello or an invite to the next HPC cocktail party? The coolness factor is everywhere, and I am guilty...
...course, despite the popularity of the straight-to-startup route, investment banks are still deluged with applications from eager college seniors. Analysts spend several hours a week interviewing and reading resumes, mostly from their own schools. Today Shemmer spends three hours in the late afternoon interviewing candidates--this week it's Yale...
Some say that the answer lies in an overdose of political correctness--the high school administration was eager to appease the anger of a group of minority students and so just cancelled the play out of hand. That may be part of it, but the larger answer is that everyone involved in this controversy is suffering an overdose of incorrect assumptions...