Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less human and as equally beautiful. Artists, especially the cubists, began collecting African artifacts, were soon exploiting their untrammeled, expressionistic energy in their own painting; gradually sculpture long thought fit only for ethnological institutes began moving into galleries, museums and homes as objects of artistic merit. Yet this eager interest in African art could not have happened without the brief, tragic encounter of two civilizations...
...dotted no i's as to the specifics of the plan. In Sorensen's words, Kennedy "inherited the plan, the planners and, most troubling of all, the Cuban exile brigade-an armed force, flying another flag, highly trained in secret Guatemalan bases, eager for one mission only...
...cynically sees the whole exercise as a chance to get rid of an inferior nuisance. "The Circus" provides only obsolete equipment and minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this by blunder after blunder. Leiser himself, who at 40 is really too old for the business, is only too pathetically eager to savor again the exhilaration he felt as a British agent during the war. There is something almost perverse about his zeal for the mission. And his skills are so rusty that East German security men, locking onto his radio transmissions, are mystified by what they think, at first, must...
...Moore names Gaudier, along with Epstein and Brancusi, as among his formative influences: "He made me feel certain that in seeking to create along paths other than those of traditional sculpture, it was possible to achieve beauty, since he had succeeded." Thus it was that an anonymous British collector, eager that the French should know Gaudier's work, recently gave more than 50 sculptures and sketches to Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne, which in turn has opened a permanent Gaudier room...
...amid this turbulent collisioncollusion of the medieval and the modern spirit, Dante Alighieri lived his turbulent life. His mother died when he was five or six, and when he was 17 he lost his father, a member of the petty nobility. "By nature impressionable and eager," as he remarks in La Commedia, the boy somehow acquired a superb intellectual education. At an early age his appearance was forceful-hook nose, big jaw, protruding lower lip-and his disposition thorny. "He was somewhat presumptuous, disdainful and haughty," according to a contemporary, "and knew not well how to bear himself with common...