Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what he calls "the fabric of one's life," a man's complete "life structure" which embodies his occupation, relations to parents, friends, lovers, children, his varied social roles and self-definitions...
...less anxious to succeed his mother than Charles. He certainly would never wish her to abdicate. Firstly, the longer you're in the job, the better...
...anxious to wash the dirty laundry of mankind with Holocaust [April 17], why doesn't it broadcast programs about the Armenians in Turkey, the Jews in Spain, the Huguenots in France...
They seem somehow unlike this fellow from North Carolina. They're a tad anxious, perhaps, vaguely desperate and perspiring a little. Their shirts are coming untucked; their pens are scribbling. They are, he realizes with sudden horror, WORKING...
...virtues. Left so vulnerable, he was obsessed by power and order. He sought father figures-a role filled for some time by Washington; he became Washington's de facto chief of staff at the astonishing age of 20. Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should die in a duel. Fortunately, Flexner never permits his psychological theories, which seem sound enough if not pursued to preposterous lengths, to overwhelm this rich and very solid biography, ending with Hamilton's 26th year...