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Those with a keen interest in the development of palm trees would ordinarily be able to take BIOL S-105: Plants of the Tropics, but for some curious reason, the course is bracketed (i.e. offered in 1986, but not this year). Presumably, coconut and pineapple horticulturists will make plans to take the course at summer school next year...
Fehr has a keen and proper concern for the rights of men. "We don't want major league players treated any differently than anybody else in this country," he says. "We don't want them treated any better, but we certainly don't want them treated any worse." On the other hand, Ueberroth has a keen and proper concern for the heroic images of idols admired and emulated by youthful fans. Their game is endangered...
...best teachers have thought most about how students learn and will attract the widest interest and command the greatest respect for the work they do in using technology in their courses. The greatest challenge for educators will be to find ways of persuading such teachers to develop a keen interest in lending their talents to this task...
...wrote the noxious anti-Semitic essay Jewry in Music, yet who also allowed Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of the Christian epic Parsifal at Bayreuth. Faust, the national symbol, might be speaking for both Luther and Wagner when he says at the beginning of Goethe's play, "With keen endeavor I have studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, and even, alas, theology. And yet here I stand, a poor fool no wiser than I was before...
...neither Lloyd Webber nor Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) was interested in composing the score. As Rice, a large, genial Londoner of 40 who looks like a relaxed Anthony Burgess, recalled in New York last week, "Then in 1982 I heard that Benny and Bjorn were keen to write something beyond the confines of ABBA. They wanted the chance to let rip, and I was lucky that Chess gave them that chance: male voices, an 80-piece orchestra, a huge choir...