Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was contacted by the University Librarian, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf. Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian exile then living in Mexico, and he asked Langer to represent Harvard in the negotiations...
...Trotsky was becoming increasingly apprehensive about the safety of his papers and he resolved to sell them to some library that could guarantee their safety. In his negotiations with Langer, Trotsky was especially anxious to know what protection the papers would receive, and what sort of control he could exercise over their use. Langer was authorized to spend up to $10,000 for the papers, but the main issue was not the total amount, but rather how much of the archives should be included for that amount...
...many years the Trotsky papers were shrouded in controversy. Barely more than a year after their acquisition the Soviet Union was fighting with Britain and the United States against Germany, and Stalin was hailed in the West as an ally and hero. In this atmosphere library officials were not anxious to have the archives of Stalin's arch-enemy thrown open for public inspection. For more than five years the papers lay in a locked vault in the basement of Widener and no one was allowed to make use of them. Only after a formal decision by the Harvard Corporation...
...Vietnam Summer may not provide all the answers for the undergraduate who is anxious to do his bit to end the war. There is the strong probability that because of its reluctance to come to grips with electoral politics--which will appear more and more important as the presidential election looms closer--anti-war organizing may have only a marginal effect on voters' decisions. And there is still the strong chance that the Republican opponent of President Johnson will not offer much of an alternative...
Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to the first American festival of Czechoslovak films-a moviegoer's feast of a dozen pictures never before shown in the U.S. Anxious to avoid their past neglect, commercial exhibitors snapped up five of them before the festival opened; more are almost certain to be booked. The distributors are making no mistake. Based on the festival evidence, it is clear that the Czech New Wave may soon reach tidal proportions. Four of the most interesting features...