Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Century" said Ferns-worth, "feels that the Christian world is anxious to know the President's views on these questions." Ike said he was reminded of college commencement addresses and the phrase that almost always pops up in them: "Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground." The President said he knew of no better advice in this day and time. Christian ideals, he said, had to animate the policy of a Christian civilization. But, he added, we must not forget that man's nature was dual: part of it selfish, greedy...
...depth of Fred Schwartzwalder's despair, his son raised $400 in California and sent it to his father. With the money Fred was able to haul 53 tons of ore down the mountain and freight it to the processing plant at Salt Lake City. After three anxious weeks, Fred heard from the AEC. In the envelope were two $6,000 checks and a top-grade assay. Fred's mine was a vein deposit of high-grade uranium ore (only one other major vein deposit-in Marysvale, Utah-is producing...
...agony without knowing how to dramatize it. The fine craftsman and melodramatist who wrote Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, the novelist who much more deftly approached the theme of The Living Room in The Heart of the Matter, has, in his first play, allowed his anxious emotions to overwhelm him. The Living Room too much batters its theme before the suicide, and again for a whole scene after it. Nor is the production very helpful. Walter Fitzgerald and Michael Goodliffe are good as the priest and the psychologist, but Greene's cold overwroughtness is played...
...much born of the lonesomeness and the longing of a witty and sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...
About his resignation, Rogers said, "After nine years of part-time administrative work, however enjoyable, I am anxious to return to full-time responsibilities as a teacher of Romance Languages. In my travels during summers I have gathered material from Europe, the Azores, and South America, but I have not yet been able to publish it because of administrative responsibilities...