Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like almost everything else at Harvard. Freshman Week depends at lot on how you approach it. You and about 1600 equally nervous, eager, and thoroughly confused people will be subjected to a week ofn onstop sensory glut. You will see, hear, and do a lot of new things with new people, and even if you never stop moving aroung there'll be thngs that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the patern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust...
...this year. The boom has been primarily a dollar phenomenon. The price of gold in yen or marks has changed only slightly. But from Hong Kong to London, gold markets that once were the preserve of diehard fundamentalists are crawling with investors-corporate treasurers, money managers, individual speculators-eager to turn dollars into the metal that has always been a mystical symbol of value...
...many Democratic politicians are fluttering, wondering whether Kennedy is indeed positioning himself to run. G.O.P. leaders like Senator Howard Baker are convinced that he is. But Democrats have grown used to the old Kennedy ploy of keeping a high profile and then backing away. Nonetheless, many of them are eager for his candidacy, and a lot of their eagerness is based on dismay over Carter's bland leadership. "In New York," said one top Democratic leader, "I could raise a million dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give...
...Country Wife is one of his better plays, some say the best. The plot revolves around a professional rake named Horner, who with the help of his doctor, Quack, convinces the men of London society that he is impotent. Led by Sir Jaspar Fidget, these men of court eagerly dump their wives on Horner in the hopes that his "harmless" company will keep them away from young swains who would sooner cuckold a husband than look at one. Naturally, Horner spends the rest of the play leaping in and out of bed after he informs the eager wives...
...human rights and will hurt U.S. economic interests. American sales, it notes, make up only a small percentage of Soviet imports. Though U.S. goods are sometimes superior, Carter's move would hardly cripple the huge Soviet economy, and Moscow can always turn to other countries that are eager to do business. Said one top U.S. official in Washington: "It's a Greek tragedy. We are challenging the Russian manhood. Do we really think that the Russians are going to free dissidents over a computer that they could buy from the French...