Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice a month Howland visits his class of prison students, trains a critical eye on their copy or gives a lecture on current events, and then throws the session open to informal questions. The meetings are usually pretty lively. Howland finds the prisoners are quick to ask questions, eager to argue. In a recent letter to me, Warden W. H. Hiatt summed up the three years of Howland's classes: "He has provided wholesome tonic by giving vital Howland impetus to realistic thinking about social, economic and political topics...
...enlarge the power of the Federal Government or even to dilute or undermine the Bill of Rights. Says Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, a red-hot supporter of the Bricker Amendment: "We are in a new era of international organizations. They are grinding out treaties like so many eager beavers which will have effect on the rights of American citizens...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
Even among white families eager to give lip service to racial equality, the prospect of having a Negro move into the house next door will often bring qualms about declining property values and a panicky urge to sell out fast. Last week one group of Philadelphia families fought back in a novel way against sellout fever...
...erection of a memorial chapel to Harvard's war dead, and the mathematics department released plans for a tutorial set up. Mental telepathy threatened to make math a useless field, however. It was the national craze, and all over the College people boasted of their prowess. But the University, eager to expose a fraud, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances and thus expose the self-styled spiritualists. The craze ended quickly at Harvard after that...