Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting roles are adequately handled and the humor is played to the utmost. As Andromache, Johanna Shaw overcomes a certain flatness of tone to portray the concerned and anxious wife of Hector. John Beck, doubling as the crafty Ulysses, presents a fine portrait of the experienced and uningenuous Greek ambassador. Christopher Rawson's portrayal of Paris as a complete sensualist involved an excessive number of effeminate hand-on-hip gestures...
...make a good reporter's blood boil, it is that growing journalistic bugbear, the hold-for-release story. Although there is a legitimate use for the hold-for-release, as with, for example, advance copies of speeches, more often it is a device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women's Page Editor Elizabeth Penrose Howkins...
Before last week's final negotiation session broke up at Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel, steel industry pressagents handed out releases that left no doubt that the meeting was going to be another flop: "Anxious as they are to see an end to this devastating strike which the union has forced upon the country . . . the eleven steel companies must continue to resist surrender [to] an agreement which will promote inflation, produce rising production costs and perpetuate wasteful, inefficient practices...
Setting the Switches. Somewhere in the unhappy middle is craggy Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Anxious not to lend further credence to the charge, popular in Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush to the summit. Accepting De Gaulle's spring timing, Adenauer suggested that early rather than late spring would be better in order to keep the summit from becoming involved in next year's U.S. election...
Quarterback Meredith has certainly done as much for S.M.U. as such greats as Halfbacks Doak Walker ('50) and Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused...