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 playgoer's mind...
Didactic Evenness. Taking over the reports of Nixon's 21 post-election task forces, Burns prepared a fat book analyzing their recommendations. He turned in his summary the day after the new President took office. "Nixon was eager to get the machinery started so he could move ahead a little faster once he assumed the reins of government," Burns explains. His next most urgent task is to frame the first proposals that will be sent from the White House up to Capitol Hill for congressional action. In large measure, Burns could thus set the tone of the Nixon presidency...
...selected colleges and universities each year. The first group of institutions included such schools as Brigham Young University, St. John's University of New York and other imminently respectable institutions. There are reported to be about 150 institutions of higher learning still on the Army's waiting list, each eager and willing to accept the contract terms which have prevailed for 50 years. Combined with low officer production and other reasons, this access to other college campuses might cause the Army to withdraw form some of the old prestige schools, however reluctantly...
With regard to academic credit, the services are all known to be most anxious to retain academic credit as a mark of prestige and a matter of ultimate inducement in attracting young men to the ROTC program. All services are known to be most eager to "up-grade" their curricular to satisfy the demands for "college-level" subjects. All services have some flexibility in this regard and are anxious to work with host institutions in search of agreeable compromise ground. The ability to do this varies among the services, however, largely because the Army is wedded--for better...
When Son Arthur returns to this zany household, he is appalled, heartsick and intellectually in anguish. Eager to exercise the sacred right of the young to rebel, Arthur (David Margulies) finds he has nothing to rebel against in his totally permissive home except the permissiveness itself. This is the provocative core of Tango, Slawomir Mrozek's incisive comedy of debased manners, shattered forms, and the contemporary value vacuum. Mrozek, 38, is a Polish writer whose passport was canceled when he condemned Poland's role in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He now lives in Paris as a stateless...