Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about time we have something in Washington besides Greek temples and Roman edifices-something from the mid-20th century in which we live." Another something he has suggested, only half in jest, is the construction of floating swimming pools in the Potomac-since nobody seems anxious to clean up the polluted river...
...Anxious to hedge against future uncertainties, U.S. aerospace companies have lately been moving to diverse and often unfamiliar fields. Last week huge North American Aviation Inc. not only staked out some particularly down-to-earth territory but got ready to pick up a new name as well...
...diversification the industry's sales of non-aerospace items last year grew 25% to $2.45 billion. Moreover, such business increased at a faster rate than industry revenues from civilian aircraft despite a rash of airline orders for jet transports. Thus it is no surprise that aerospace companies are more anxious than ever to tap lucrative new fields and reduce their worrisome dependence on Government contracts...
Anderson's sight gag becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...
...third sketch striates humor with poignancy. A daughter is going off to college. Her mother (Eileen Heckart), pridefully modern, is anxious to turn the girl into a kind of one-woman prophylactic kit. The husband (Balsam) wants to preserve for his daughter something of the force, excitement and mystery of an intimately loving man-woman encounter. As a man who pledges his word and his heart, he is wounded at playlet's end by a generation that occasionally pledges neither...