Word: eagerness
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...with delicacy, wit and performance skills. At 15, Chiyo has these graces only in embryo; but a famous geisha, Mameha, sees how they might flower. She begins the girl's education sternly. "That is a perfect bow. For a pig farmer." "Rise. Not like a horse." And slowly the eager student with the "watery" gray eyes grows into a captivating woman known as Nitta Sayuri. Hatsumomo, another geisha, sees Sayuri's promise as a threat. She spits a warning at the girl: "I will destroy...
...years schoolteachers have used a version of the mnemonic phrase "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us New Pajamas" to help kids learn the names of the nine planets in order of distance from the sun [Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto]. Now if Pluto loses its planetary status, I suppose we can get used to "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us Nothing." Things just won't be the same, though, without those pajamas...
...also reports that Harvard students are more broad in their academic interests and are eager to get to know...
...died in 1979 after serving in three apartheid-enforcing governments, ''would agree with me today.'' Still, De Klerk was not a born reformer. During his rise through the ranks of the National Party, he allied himself with its verkrampte, or ''closed- minded conservative,'' camp. He was a pragmatic politician, eager to press the flesh and do the deal. He proved cautious in his personal life as well. He married and stayed married to his college sweetheart. An earlier generation of South African leaders liked to relax by hunting big game; De Klerk took up golf. One thing that rankled Mandela...
...department could do no wrong under the leadership of Gates, former Carswell Professor K. Anthony Appiah, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. More than 500 students regularly packed West’s introductory course in Afro-American Studies, Af-Am 10, eager to experience his dynamic lectures. Gates palled around with Bill Clinton (the man whom Toni Morrison referred to as our first black president). Gates, West, and the whole Af-Am team were an academic powerhouse...