Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...starters, Gitlin says, today's students might be less eager to protest. While many students in the '60s were willing to be different because their economic futures were secure, today's students must contend with a far less welcoming economy--a factor that will reinforce conservatism...
Last week Tuesday, The Crimson ran an article describing the alternative views of Christopher Columbus held by several students at Harvard, including myself. I commented that Americans might not be so eager to celebrate Columbus Day if they knew more about the atrocities which he committed in the New World...
...winning Singh a new constituency among the lower-caste voters. At stake are an estimated 50,000 government jobs that until now were open to upper-caste students. The competitive university system produces far more graduates than the job market can absorb, and young upper-caste Indians are extremely eager to find jobs that will pay well enough to meet their middle- class expectations. Now they face a situation where no matter how well they do in school, it will be considerably harder to get those posts. "Politicians are playing vote-catching gimmicks at our cost," says Abhishek Saket...
...imagining it. These men are of diverse backgrounds, grousing (but never cynical), scared (but never immobilized), setting aside their small, usually comical, differences to form a unit that, in both efficiency and common decency, no tyranny could hope to beat. The presence of a smarmy p.r. officer (John Lithgow), eager to exploit the crew in a home-front media campaign celebrating their democratic virtues, signals the filmmakers' awareness of wartime fabulism. But their own nostalgic prettifications are hardly more realistic, or penetrating...
Ernest M. Monad '51, a Boston-area fundraiser, says he understands the University must wait for new leadership, but is nonetheless eager to start the drive...