Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
Delegates ranged from dedicated atheists to questioning agnostics eager to cooperate with well-meaning Christians in building the good society, and they differed widely in their attitude toward religion. Norwegian Psychiatrist Gabriel Langfeldt argued that individuals would, in the future development of mankind, have to make a choice between religion and ethics: "Crediting ethics to supernaturally inspired messages and to revelations has led and still leads to brutal wars. Ethics, anchored as it is in purely human needs, will always win where religion and ethics come into conflict...
...midst of a revolution with which it does not have the means, juridical or theological, to cope." Popes and contemporary theologians alike have exhorted the layman to become more active in the service of the Church; the new breed of well-educated, spiritually alert layman is eager to do so. Yet, thanks to centuries of lay inertia and clerical imperialism, the "Church's organizational and institutional life has been the sole responsibility of the clergy; from the teaching office of the Church down to the most remote parish everything of importance has been in the hands of the clergy...
...presumably a politician's easy way to popularity. But though President Kennedy is eager to achieve one, a Gallup poll last week showed 72% of the people opposed. At his press conference, Kennedy wanted to rewrite the pollsters' question: Wouldn't people be for a tax cut if it would put off a recession? Such advanced economics has not got across to the body politic, which seems to think that if the Government spends a lot of money, it ought to pay its debts...
...Vitelloni was cut by only 61 seconds, and only because Italy's television censors find homosexuality a topic unfit for family viewing. In the U.S., though, films pass through the hands of many eager vandals: distributors cut them up for money's sake, television for time's sake, and censors for God's sake...