Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survive economically if it is excluded from the European Common Market, whose members bitterly dislike his autocratic ways. The stubborn illegal strikes that crippled Spain's economy for two months last year also forced el Caudillo to recognize that the country's hard-pressed workers are desperately eager to enjoy living standards comparable to those of other Europeans...
...fringe benefits (to $1.66 a day). Spain, said Franco, in a year-end TV and radio address, is now "a nation of peace, on the road to economic recuperation, with a capacity for growth in all sectors of its life, and with a youth that is technically prepared and eager to face the future...
...young dancers looked their eager best in Hommage an Ballet, choreographed by the company's director, former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Premier Danseur Frederic Franklin. In their premiere of Early Voyagers, a new work by Valerie Bettis (A Streetcar Named Desire), the dancers deserved more praise than the ballet, and a packed house rewarded them with 13 curtain calls...
Ghettobound. Future workshop shows will include any kind of performance that an eager young pro can get past an audition: pantomime, improvisation, poetry readings, musical recitals, monologues, one-acters, sermons-anything. Philadelphia's second contribution to the series will be the first play written by Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. Distantly echoing Harold Pinter, it is called Crawling Arnold. Arnold is in his 305. but he crawls because he wants to be complex again ("Children are complex, adults are just complicated''). The dialogue is built out of fey remarks about Jews, Negroes and psychiatric social workers who sleep with...
...Bayreuth the Teutonic holy of holies. I was the first American and the young est man ever to appear there," Maazel says, and it was beautiful." Soon he was second only to Herbert von Karajan as Europe's darling. And having triumphed over adolescence in Europe, he was eager to triumph over his painful memories of home. It's great to be a prophet in your own country," he mused, "especially when you're already a prophet overseas...