Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare friendly moments, his father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...
Frank O'Connor of County Cork is blessed with a rare, enviable talent: he can express serious ideas in blandly humorous, seemingly inconsequential stories. The twelve tart tales in this book create an imaginary world as real, and certainly as relevant, as daily experience itself...
...this winter the varsity wrestling team enjoys a reputation of winning the close ones--an accomplishment incredibly rare among present-day Crimson teams. Against Princeton in New Jersey today, however, the grapplers' ability to win when the money rides gets its final test...
...College's philosophy in the recent past seems to have been "Here is a library, here is a lecturer, here are a few examinations--take it or leave it." If the lecturer happened to have that rare ability to stimulate the mind of the student by mere lecturing, so much the better, but this seems to be only a secondary consideration in the employment of instructors. Harvard University is often more interested in brilliant research, to the advantage of the University and at the expense of the College. The result is that Harvard's reputation as a great research center...
...Houses who eat together religiously, not because they had the slightest thing in common (which was evidenced by their conversation) but because they happened by mere chance to be thrown together as roommates and, knowing no one else, formed themselves into a little group of fellow sufferers. On rare occasion I have seen these same people in contact with their real intellectual confreres and the satisfaction they got from such contacts was very clear...