Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres...