Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name. Indeed the Lone Ranger himself, the man those outlaws just couldn't kill, might have envied Rocky his endurance and fight. Sheer physical stamina kept him going. His voice cracked and hoarsened, but he kept talking. At one point his determination might have led to disaster. Eager to keep a speaking date at a high school in Newport, he took his plane into a dangerous fogbound landing. The pilot of a following DC-3 press plane took one look at the soup below and more prudently turned back...
...confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident begins to boil. Seems all 111 member nations want to claim the foundling for their very own and are eager to give it the best of all possible homelands...
From that dubious starting point, Whitmore's journey runs a predictable course. He meets hate, violence, discrimination, segregation. He endures lurid encounters with whites eager to verify their surrealistic fantasies about Negro sexuality. Written and directed in sledgehammer style, the movie revels in its own righteousness, too often substituting good intentions for good work. And Whitmore's makeup merely makes him look like a dark, wet actor doing Gentleman's Agreement in blackface. What's really wrong with the film, however, stems from Griffin's original thesis. His discovery of the Negro world...
...period, however, has not been the product of Franco or his system of government. The memory of the war--the memory of thirty-three months of civil agony and a million deaths--still haunts the country. The Spaniard, recalling what partisanship brought him in the past, has not been eager to rush back into politics. He has been an easy target for Franco's peace and unity campaign. Yet the issues of war stand unresolved. Twenty-five years after its conclusion, the Spanish citizen remains without political or economic voice in his society. The Catholic Church and the Candillo rule...
...magnificence, brought in a handful of Italian stonemasons to work on his patio, he was bringing the Renaissance to the feudal, long-Moorish plains of Andalusia. He was only 28 when he ordered the work begun in 1506, but the marquis was a Latin scholar and an eager follower of Columbus' early voyages to the "Western antipodes." His patronage made the patio a triumph of transition from darkness to light...