Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Beth met Greg singer. He was premed, brilliant, shy and seldom left his room for a destination other than the Bio labs. On the rare occasions that he went to a party, he would walk in, count the number of men there, divide it by the number of the women there, and compute the ratio. Then he'd smile at his host and flee. Beth was going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire...
KIDS AND TEACHERS at East Somerville Community School performed an extraordinary dance last Saturday night. "May Day," choreographed by Toby Armour, artistic director of New England Dinosaur, a company which just finished two weeks as artists-in-residence at the school, is a rare achievement. First, for the company to have given inexperienced children and adults the sense of what makes dance, and second, for the choreography of the work to be recognizable as Armour's style...
...flying shone with the innocence of its newness and possibility, with the untrammeled zest of lifting off from the earth. Aloft, wrote Lindbergh, "I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger." He was a sky lover; his was a rare moment: personal confidence and skill in partnership with a machine, not overwhelmed by it, as would happen later...
...novelist, encouraged him to become a naturalist after they met in 1967, when Scott was in his last year of philosophy studies at Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them as pets. In 1973 they bought a ramshackle 17th century manor house at Verlhiac, 100 miles northeast of Bordeaux, and turned it into a simian paradise...
...Lloyd George, a "goat-footed bard." In response, the English establishment ostracized Keynes, criticising him not for his economics but for holding to an opinion that caused rejoicing to the nation's enemies. By the end of his chapter, Galbraith has sculpted a martyr image for Keynes, a rare act for the otherwise cynical professor...