Word: cager
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...
...cager to talk about the future. He has not won the Nobel Prize, but, after laughingly admitting that "it's always niceto get the cash," he said. "One doesn't think about these things." Superstitious, he would not talk about planned work, commenting, "You never talk about the things you're going to do. You might talk them away and never do them...