Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site for the memorial library was choses by Kenneday himself after several visits to the University. Pusey said he had last met with the late President to plan the structure on Oct. 21, a month before the association. He said Kenneday was "most anxious that the library for his papers should be immediately accessible to scholars...
...near panic, caused in part by plain ignorance of Johnson's views, in part by fear that the association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items as the opening of consular offices...
...What a sad commentary on our American culture your report on women is [Nov. 22]! It's no wonder that we educators see so many unhappy, anxious, insecure children in our schools. Their mothers are outside of their homes involved in "the search for something more challenging." If these women had any spiritual values, they would thank God that they are blessed with husbands and children and devote their talents and energies to fulfilling their roles willingly, lovingly and efficiently...
...thank God I was able to transfer my average son from a public high school to a fine private school in New York City. The encouragement and attention given there has made him anxious and able to attend a fine college...
...true painter always reveals more of himself than he knows-or perhaps wishes to. Rembrandt, the most prolific of all self-portraitists, paints himself at 60, his face crumpled in laughter but the eyes full of an old man's sadness. Van Gogh shows himself looking with slanted, anxious eyes at a world unfriendly and impossible to understand. And in perhaps the most macabre self-portrait ever painted, Caravaggio places his own horror-creased face on the severed head of the slain Goliath...