Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TANGO, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, has David Margulies as a young man eager to exercise the sacred right of youth to rebel; but he finds that his totally permissive home life leaves him nothing to rebel against. Despite stilted direction and a somewhat awkward translation, the play is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pay an evening-long courtesy call on the mind...
...U.S.S.R. In the President's now familiar words, he believes that this should be "an era of negotiation instead of confrontation." Unlike his predecessor, he also believes that negotiations should cover tough global political differences as well as the purely military matters that the Russians have been more eager to discuss. While Nixon has deferred answering a new Soviet proposal for arms-control discussions, he pressed ahead last week for Senate ratification of the nonproliferation treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that do not now have them. He also accepted in principle a French proposal...
...morning if there is something you want to do," John had said several days before. It was Thursday night--the boy did not know what he wanted to do; but he suddenly could not control the throbbing in his body; he knew it wanted something. He sat forward, kneeling, eager, anxious...
...MORE topics given wide discussion last year was how to provide more opportunity for students to have an appropriate role in decision making. Today's students are in the main a highly serious a lot who have been increasingly eager in recent years to be treated not as inferiors but as younger colleagues working in a common enterprise. In many instances, particularly in the more advanced programs of the graduate-professional schools, there can be no doubt they...
...visitors a year-into a neighborhood that is already congested with cars and people. Some Chicagoans complain that the massive building, designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (TIME cover, Aug. 2), .has an overpowering effect on the far smaller buildings around it. Still, Chicago seems eager to utilize the space provided by the new skyscraper, as evidenced by the fact that 39% of its apartments and 42% of its offices have already been rented. The first tenant to move in was the Chicago advertising agency of Post-Keyes-Gardner Inc. (billings: $45 million), which took over...