Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inevitable rumors started. Could the Trib survive the strike? New York's Mayor Lindsay assured a reporter that he had considerable doubt; Trib employees in New York and Washington echoed his concern by looking for other jobs. The word was that Columnists Walter Lippmann and Art Buchwald, anxious to hang on to a New York outlet, would sign on with the Times...
Awareness of Evil. Despite its sweeping concerns, Commentary is essentially a Jewish magazine. It was started and subsidized by the American Jewish Committee, which was anxious to reaffirm Jewish life and traditions after Hitler. But from the very first issue, Commentary avoided the insularity and defensiveness typical of many Jewish publications. In a revulsion against radical ideology, Editor Eliot Cohen sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils...
Spurred by Supreme Court decisions, and anxious not to be embarrassed by another case like Escobedo v. Illinois (TIME cover, April 29), the Chicago Police Department is trying to revamp its treatment of accused citizens. In General Order 66-9, Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson has just admonished...
...shall gain, equal opportunities." Refreshing as those words might have been to newly enfranchised Negroes, they were heresy to Alabama's old-line whites. And when Martin Luther King began promoting a GROW-WITH-FLOWERS bloc vote among Negroes, Lurleen began to look like Joan of Arc to anxious white supremacists...
Police Pigeon. No one is more anxious for the court to make up its mind than Danny Escobedo, a prime target of Chicago cops ever since the state dropped its case against him in 1964 for lack of any other evidence except his invalid confession. In prison, Danny wrote poetry, learned plumbing, discovered psychology. He walked out with a high school diploma, dreams of a good job, and hopes of suing the police for denial of his civil rights. Hardly anything has worked...