Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students perestroika and glasnost were the great hope of the future. We found students who were bright and inquisitive, eager to analyze and critique Soviet history. They yearned for a different, better future which included some type of democracy. Their vision, however, was still vague. One student said the goal of current reforms is a return to the heritage of Lenin. Another named economic freedom, and a third described it as "developing the human self...
...hunt for a house began about three years ago, when Mrs. Reagan's friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since...
...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive"--especially for a young artist, eager to absorb what this supreme moment of untainted modernism offered. In cubism, he felt, the subject was "killed, cut to pieces and its form and surface disguised." Chagall did not want to go so far, but the flattening, reflection and rotation of cubist form gave his early paintings their special radiance and precision. In Paris Through the Window, 1913, we enter a rainbow world, all prismatic light and jingling crystalline triangles. It is full of emblems of stringent modernity: the Eiffel Tower, a parachutist...
...homeless are a very diverse group and they have much to say, he said, adding that they are eager to talk in part because they are seldom listened...
...confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer to it. At the same time he managed to create the general impression that his differences with the U.S. were a mere ripple in an otherwise harmonious friendship. The Reagan Administration too seemed eager to put the best possible light on the meetings. "What I am happy to tell you," said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy to a congressional committee, "is that we don't have a no from any party. So, so far so good...