Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gulf between the U.S. and Africa." Explaining the Nigerians' warmth toward him, Young said with a grin: "Nigeria is arrogant and Kissinger is arrogant, and so there was a clash. I may be just as arrogant, but I can control it better." Later he added, "They're anxious for a new start, and that's what I'm looking...
...Hoopla. While giving the go-ahead for inoculations, Califano left no doubt that the Carter Administration is anxious to avoid the mistakes made by its predecessor. He emphasized that there would be none of the hoopla that marked last fall's inoculation effort. Nor would anyone beyond the elderly and the chronically ill be encouraged to get the mixed shots against A/Victoria. Finally, in what seemed a move to disassociate the new Administration from the whole swine flu fiasco, Califano asked for the resignation of the respected veteran director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control, Dr. David Sencer...
...gesture in Stravinsky's "Les Noces"--highly specific, mimetic gesture, yet abstract, interesting as pure form. Ignoring the abbreviated libretto Stravinsky wrote with Bronislava Nijinska for the 1923 Diaghilev premiere, the choreographer presents instead his own vision of a Russian peasant rite, an innocent bride and shy groom, their anxious yet wise parents, and high-spirited friends. In a recent interview Lubovitch explained...
Doubtlessly, all concerned with this enormous, expensively cast and heavily flacked "prestige" production were earnestly anxious to make a vivid, powerful statement about this central American historical drama. It was brave of them to try to do so in the unlikely precincts of prime-time commercial tele vision. It appears, however, that in their fervor not to be misunderstood, to be clearly on the side of the angels, they have set aside all common sense. In the one-third of their work available in advance to critics, not one sympathetic white character appears. Not a single black man of less...
...contest. The film makers have found an ideal protagonist and set him against a dramatically perfect antagonist. In the former role they have, as the contest announcer endlessly calls him, "the one and only" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on the seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, he exudes the easy confidence of a man who has always known he will be a star of some kind (and who could, if this movie takes off, become a multimedia presence of some force). He is contrasted...