Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard recovered rapidly, however, and clearly dominated the rest of the half. The quick, accurate midfield passes of the Crimson halfbacks and forwards notably those of junior inside Fred Akuffo seemed to baffle the over-eager Brown defenders, and Harvard out-shot the Bruins by better than three...
...moves up to the vice-presidency, Hubert Humphrey leaves in his wake two important jobs to be filled-and there are plenty of eager contenders for both...
...Council of Economic Advisers, but they range far beyond the usual scope of the CEA. Walter Heller, author of the tax cut and the most influential chairman in the CEA's history, is expected to resign soon and return to the University of Minnesota, though the President is eager to keep him on. Heller's replacement could well be Michigan's Gardner Ackley, 49, a somewhat quieter but equally activist CEA member. Whoever heads the CEA, the band of outside economic advisers is certain to be used increasingly by the Administration. Spread from coast to coast, this...
...very mad, very English, and very nearly preposterous. But for viewers eager to empty their minds and concentrate on such creepy business, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaved Room) works an aura of disaster into every nook and passageway of a turreted old mansion. As the demented psychic, Myra, Kim Stanley manages so many subtle shifts of mood that she seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant, and a deadly menace. The kidnap scene is a cinematic whirlwind, with the camera cutting and lashing across the landscape to build to a moment of crisis when the victim (Judith Donner) locks herself...
...eager as he is to see the President reelected on November 3, Portlist is chagrined by "the contrast between Johnson's talents and policies on one hand, and his methods and personality on the other." He agrees with Goldwater on one point: The President should give the nation moral inspiration as well as political leadership. Portlist trusts Johnson to get legislation passed, administer the executive branch efficiently, keep the peace, and handle all the other functions attached to the White House. But he looks to Johnson's running mate, Hubert Humphrey, to symbolize "the intelligence, idealism, and integrity which...