Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Educator Robert Hutchins declared the whole idea could be "a threat to American education." The results made a mockery of the cynics and alarmists alike. On campus after campus, whole new communities sprang up-row upon row of trailers, barracks, and Quonset huts, crammed with books, babies and as eager a crop of students as U.S. higher education had ever seen. By 1947 the ex-G.I.s comprised more than one-half of the University of Michigan's student body, nearly three-quarters of Columbia...
...students were middle-aged and obviously prosperous. Some were balding, and all had the air of men of responsibility. But in all its 68 years, California's Pomona College (enrollment: 1,025) had rarely had a more eager class. They were 25 rising executives, with jobs ranging from blast furnace superintendent to insurance company vice president. They had been sent to Pomona, at company expense, to gulp down as big a dose of the liberal arts as possible in two weeks...
...Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...astonishment found himself applauded. His career was set, in a way that recalls H. L. Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth who generally gets stagestruck. "Is he," Mencken asked, "the alert, ingenious, ambitious young fellow? Is he ... the diligent reader, the hard student, the eager inquirer? No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clotheshorse, the nimble squire of dames. He seeks in the world, not a chance to test his mettle by hard and useful work, but an easy chance to shine...
...Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose-jointed, simple style to match, Author Gipson can probably depend on a substantial crowd of dog lovers eager to follow Old Yeller all the way to his bier...