Word: interestedness
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Is there someone in the family interested in the 46 synonyms for the Gewurztraminer grape? Or maybe you have a friend who just has to locate the six wine-growing districts of China? If so, consider as a suitable gift Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson (New York...
Willy de Clercq, the chief E.C. negotiator, opposed phasing out all agricultural subsidies that give farmers in some countries an advantage over others in world markets. Nine million E.C. farmers, a politically powerful bloc whose livelihood depends on payments that enable E.C. stockpiling of products like beef, wine and milk...
As part of his breadth requirements there, Mitchell had to take a course in Scandinavian mythology and "fell in love with it." He was also interested in socio-linguistics and folklore and mythology as an undergraduate.
"The conjunction of the women's movement and the prominence of Black women writers provided a very powerful source of interest," Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Barbara E. Johnson says. "People who were trained in literary theory have become interested in questioning the authority of the establishment."
Johnson, who has concentrated her studies on Black women writers since 1980, says generational changes have a lot to do with the resurgence of literary studies within Afro-Am. "There are a lot of scholars who got interested in Black studies in the 1960s--many of them are now tenured...