Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriate to ask Citizen Thomas Mann for a more specific definition of the "slight restrictions of freedom" [TIME, Dec. 1] in the country whose citizenship he is anxious to keep . . . He has the moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty...
...love is lost between Mexican and Spanish bullfighters; in fact, for several years before 1950 no Spanish matador was allowed in a Mexican bull ring. This was Dominguin's first professional appearance in Mexico, and his father-manager was anxious about his famous son's reception...
Among the heap of letters gracing our desk a few days ago was a plea for journalistic unity. The editors of the Daily Princetonian, anxious over football's current health, are drumming up enthusiasm for the return of spring practice and a requirement that each Ivy League members play five other members every year. Their missive, like those sent to the other six Ivy League newspapers, exhorted us to join with them in this drive. We can hardly go along, though...
Czechoslovakia. To a conference of Consumer Cooperatives in Prague, Communist Party Secretary Josef Tesla announced "great deficiencies" in coal production. Food Minister Ludmila Jankoucova broadcast an appeal for wheelbarrows and carts to ease a "transport crisis" on the Czech railroads. Both seemed anxious to lay the blame on Slansky & Co., who were even then headed for the gallows. As if in explanation, Radio Prague played recordings from the trial testimony of Ludvik Frejka, who was author of the Czechoslovakian two-and five-year plans...
...Voice of the Turtle, the play introduces two kinds of modern girl. One (Vicki Cummings), worldly and anxious for security and comfort, snares a conventionally religious Roman Catholic; their life is shallow but unshaken. The other girl (Viveca Lindfors), serious and independent-minded, rushes into an intense love affair with a bitter, harshly unsentimental young writer who, when she becomes pregnant, refuses to marry her. She, on the brink of suicide, responds to some inner voice; he, finally on the brink of despair, returns...