Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper nests, bore healthy young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born...
Columnist William White's testament to Lyndon Johnson is only one of a bumper new crop of books with political themes. Most of them are the works either of newsmen or ex-newsmen, all anxious to appeal to a public appetite whetted by prospects of next summer's national political conventions and the Big Day in November. A sampling: >The Big Man, Columnist Henry J. Taylor's novel about a Midwest lawyer who seeks his party's nomination for President. Taylor's man, Frank Killory, was obviously inspired by the late Wendell Willkie...
With his characteristic classically-conceived "modern" forms and blatantly ugly color palette, Giorgio de Chirico depicts his reaction to modern civilization. In "The Nostalgia of the Infinite" (1913-14) the viewer looks up a towering building, isolated and uncommunicative; in "The Anxious Journey" (1913), he sees a maze of arches and doorways, uncommitted and foreboding...
...Communist nations. One thing that Home did inherit from Macmillan was a belief that Khrushchev has renounced nuclear war as an instrument of foreign policy, and that the West would be better served by dealing with a fat Communist than with a lean and hungry one. Home, therefore, is anxious to expand trade with Communism. Britain is holding elections this year, and the idea is politically popular. But Johnson disagreed with his thesis. And, as it happens, he too is up for election, and in the U.S. increased trade is more controversial...
This year Dartmouth will host the championships on the weekend of March 15, and the local snow runners are understandably anxious to compete...