Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American Ambassador to the U.S.: "It is to be hoped that we all do not contemplate another Bay of Pigs type failure of purpose. We are all ready to go now, but tomorrow Castro may confuse or subvert some of the very governments that are the most eager to finish...
...thing, Nikita would scarcely want to mar so quickly the image that he is building as "peacemaker" in Cuba. Moreover, Cuba must have convinced him, if he still needed convincing, that the U.S. will stand firm in Berlin. Since Khrushchev presumably is no more eager to start a nuclear war over Berlin than over Cuba, provoking a Berlin crisis now might be risking another and even more disastrous Russian backdown. The guess is that Khrushchev will simply not revive the East German question for several months...
...marriage seems sensible, though Greece does not bring much of a dowry. Eager to show that theirs is more than just a rich man's club, the Common Marketeers can now hold Greece up as an example. Some other fringe economies-Spain, Portugal, Turkey-are also thinking about Common Market ties. Greece hopes to get much-needed foreign investment and to increase its exports, which now total barely one-third as much as its annual imports of $740 million...
Some Westerners believe that things must be made "easier" for Khrushchev by the West if he is not to fall prey to neo-Stalinist reactionaries. Moscow often seems eager to encourage this view, even though officially it has pronounced Stalinism as dead as Old Joe himself. Since early this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last...
...people in Devi (The Goddess) seem almost like temple carvings come to life before Ray's camera. A rich and deeply religious old patriarch dreams that his 17-year-old daughter-in-law (Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of a goddess. The girl, eager to please, allows herself to be decked out in flowers and jewels, to be ensconced in an altar outside her father-in-law's house where streams of peasants and holy men come to make obeisance. When a beggar's sick grandson recovers in her presence, the event is hailed as a miracle...