Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film does have its silly moments. There is a man eager to see a newborn son who mutters a last message in a companion's arms. There is also a captive German officer who wistfully admits that he misses his frau and kinder. But despite a liberal complement of platitudes, The Four Days of Naples never really becomes embarrassing. And it does invent many lively and believable ways to thwart Germans--probably the critical test of a movie that never even presumes to squeeze clumsy lessons out of the bestiality...
...Negro rage is provoked, furthermore, by the white man's insistence on his own superiority, by his demand that the Negro, to achieve equality, must be accepted according to the white man's own definition of acceptability. "I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be 'accepted' by white people," writes Baldwin, "still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet...
...have also dropped from $351 million to $185 million-only a shade more than those of Morocco. The military men who half-run Argentina behind a civilian facade have promised elections to return the country to constitutional rule, but are as hesitant to step aside as they were once eager to step in. Their problem is still the same as when they deposed President Frondizi a year ago: how to keep the 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan Perón from taking over the country. When the Peronistas were allowed to run last time, they...
...mighty Joe Levine is making Zulu. It concerns an incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection...
Rockefeller also announced the Class Day Speakers. They are: Orator, Eugene Clements; Ivy Orator, Thomas Babe; Poet, Fritz Eager; Odist, David Cole; Chorister, Bentley Layton...