Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apertura can bring stable government to Italy under present conditions. He might well be wrong, as the Christian Democrats' loss and the Reds' gains at the polls suggest. But Moro is determined to keep the coalition alive. "It is," as Moro put it last week, "an anxious moment for our country...
Painters have abstracted her. Minor poets have done minor poems about her. In the current Harper's, Penelope Gilliatt, wife of Playwright John Osborne, moons about Marilyn's "innocent and anxious talent'' that was wasted in the Hollywood child-woman fixation: "One sensed that Marilyn Monroe had probably been made tragically unhappy by the infant mold that was forced upon...
...Naples. But Moro is somewhat less enthusiastic than Fanfani about economic planning, and could be expected to be more outspoken about the need to check the Communists. Moreover, he might be a lot more popular. Where Fanfani enjoys sharp exchanges and is quick to trade insults, Moro is reserved, anxious to avoid angry debates whenever possible, and detests name calling. Says one of his friends, admiringly, "Moro runs the party the way he drives a car. He keeps both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road, and he never drives more than 35 miles an hour...
...Visual Arts has agreed that extra curricular work should generally be discouraged at the Center, yet it possible that some supervised individuals and groups may work at the VAC. Several people, particularly Dean Trottenberg, Sekler, and Robert G. Garner Coordinator of the Light and Communications Center, are anxious to start a collection of historically important photographs and exhibit them regularly...
...would consider sanctions on Haiti only if present negotiations failed. A task force, with U.S. Marines aboard, maneuvered in the Gulf of Gonaïves within sight of Haiti's dun-colored mountains. Helicopters from the carrier Boxer could put them ashore in minutes. Yet the U.S. is anxious to avoid any unilateral intervention that would inevitably revive memories of the 1915-34 U.S. Marine occupation of Haiti. If intervention is required-to protect foreign nationals or to prevent a bloody war-U.S. Marines will go ashore but only, Washington made clear, with OAS approval and under...