Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while not as likely as it seemed 20 years ago, is by no means impossible. But neither failed Marxist theory nor entrenched Marxist power explains why Marxism can today provide slogans for the uproar in U.S. colleges and ghettos, courage for guerrillas in Viet Nam, flickers of hope for anxious intellectuals and bewildered peasants...
...audience, or the part of it which uses the words scarcely more gracefully than he, that neither are they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More dismaying still are his long silences and gestures of over-anxious assent. These are the times when he is learning a new part, not conversing but understudying, snatching your soul away before you have time to sell it. The knowledge gained in this way is astonishing. From his father, a railway man, he learned the names and locations...
...important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting, inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25-word statement on the subject "Why I'm anxious to take this course...
...they keep each other up all night talking about problems that are the same as everyone else's. There's a lot of repetition, a lot of things people do despite themselves. Certain aspects of life such as male-female relationships, are made artificial. People are much more anxious than they have to be. Living in an institution makes people put their time and interests in compartments, and nowhere is this more true than in the rules about male visitors...
...blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional flashes of anger in other reporters anxious to defend the press. At one dinner Look's George Leonard, author of numerous sympathetic studies of the ghetto, finally exploded at accusations: "Goddammit, that isn't true. The press has told it like it is time and again. Why haven't you read my stories?" He banged...