Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geographical and economic links to the U.S. have given his country scant percentage of maneuverability in its foreign policy. However, he said pointedly, "it should use that 10% or 20% to the hilt." He defined Canada's position as "one of interrogation." For his part, Nixon was anxious to warm the climate between neighbors that had cooled under two previous Administrations. But he also felt compelled to press tactfully for U.S. defensive security both in this hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that the ABM system's flexibility and slow timetable would not escalate...
...exuberant disarray of folk dance lies a vast artistic chasm. Some attempts to bridge this gap have been notably successful-the cowboy ballets of Agnes de Mille, for example, or the large-scale ethnic dance companies sent around the world with in creasing frequency by almost any nation anxious to make its own culture known. One of the most dazzling of these troupes is Mexico's Ballet Folklorico, which just completed its seventh U.S. tour with a one-week stand at Manhattan's City Center. Once again it convinced audiences that hybrid artistry can create a language...
...cull the lucky few from the overqualified many. Forced to refine their criteria, admissions directors now seek "highenergy" students (basal metabolism readings may be next) and especially "interesting people." How to seem interesting is every applicant's new nightmare. As one New York headmaster recently told anxious parents: "The only solution is to make sure that your boy builds a submarine in the basement...
...Anxious to escape abrasive confrontations of the kind that embroiled his two immediate predecessors, Richard Nixon had hoped to avoid direct federal intervention against price increases by private industry. Yet last week the President took strong steps to arrest soaring lumber prices-and there was little grumbling. His tactics much resembled those of the Johnson Administration, which in 1965 fought off aluminum and copper price rises by threatening to release supplies of the metals from Government stockpiles. Nixon ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to step up the sale of lumber from publicly owned forests, which contain more than half...
...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...