Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among U.S. tourists, the hardest hit is the specialist in out-of-the-way restaurants, anxious to show his friends that little place he discovered two years ago last spring. The doorman whistles for a taxi, then sadly reports: "I'm very sorry, monsieur. So many taxi drivers are en vacances." Conveyed to the address by a limousine, hired at three times the normal price, the tourists are apt to find the restaurant tightly shuttered and a big sign saying: "Fermeture annuelle." On the fourth try they may find one open, though the regular chef is "en vacances...
...moment they represent a continuing effort to rework the common materials of the age. By using techniques borrowed from airplane factory and auto assembly lines, modern-day sculptors are finding new ways to express man's place, or lack of it, in a fast-changing, highly technical and anxious...
...hangover from it six hours ago-these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there may be a hopeless anxious fumbling effort, certain to complete the rout of a tense, frightened ashamed and embarrassed girl. . . Indeed it almost seems wonderful that any marriages have ever survived...
...drama project, Matinee, demonstrates why Weaver is anxious to develop and popularize the ancient art of hack writing. Matinee next season begins a series of five one-hour plays a week (Monday through Friday, 3 p.m., E.D.T.) every week of the year. The 260 plays yearly require, according to NBC, an initial $1,000,000 outlay, 4,000 actors, 20 directors, five permanent production units and 100 writers and adapters. This one show is the theatrical equivalent of five fully staffed repertory companies, with salaries and audiences guaranteed...
...histories of acting out their aggressive urges at the drop of a hat. Five others had disorders resembling schizophrenia. Fifteen had an attitude of rejection toward the expected child. The emotional symptoms that developed in this group were either severely neurotic or borderline psychotic; 15 became so anxious and irritable that their usefulness to the Air Force was impaired; and eight were depressed-two of them so severely that they attempted suicide. There were some signs of accident proneness, stomach upsets and hypochondria. All but one of the 17 men showed reduced efficiency; eight took to drinking heavily. Others became...