Word: enthusiastic
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DIED. TIMOTHY LEARY, 75, the Harvard psychology professor and lsd guru who encouraged the rebellious 1960s generation to "turn on, tune in, drop out"; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, California. A cyberspace enthusiast, he turned his battle with cancer ("the beginning of the most fascinating part of my life") into a public event that fans could follow on his Website. His last lucid conversation was apparently with author William Burroughs, to whom he said, "I hope someday I'm as funny...
...tennis is not Blake's only athletic passion. A self-proclaimed sports enthusiast, he spent many afternoons on the courts of Connecticut's Fairfield High School--basketball courts, that...
...sport-utility vehicle, Phillip and Julia Maloney of Marietta, Georgia, were almost ready to give up. No matter how hard they haggled, they could never find a model with the features they wanted at a price they could afford. Then last January, Phillip, a postman and after-hours computer enthusiast, discovered a referral service called Auto-By-Tel on the Internet. He typed in what he was looking for at 11 one night and got a call from a dealer the next morning. "They talked price on the phone, and two days later, we picked up our Suburban," says Julia...
...world summit on terrorism in Cairo, called the shootings "a mad and evil act", mirroring the reactions of parents and officials in the quiet Scottish town. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton was the 43-year-old administrator of a boys athletic club and was described as a gun enthusiast and a loner. A neighbor told the AP that Hamilton often took young boys on holiday to Loch Lomond.Liggett Group Breaks Ranks, Settles Suit
...magnet to younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, the Dadaist Man Ray and, strange to say, Leon Trotsky...