Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santo Domingo his supporters were chanting "Juan Bó! Juan Bó! El Presidente!" and making eager preparations for their leader's return, two years to the day after his overthrow and exile by the Dominican military. Yet in San Juan, 250 miles across the Mona Passage, Juan Bosch, 56, the deposed President and the man in whose name the bloody Dominican civil war was launched last April, could hardly look or act less like a returning hero...
...offers start pouring in on a presidential assistant from the moment he begins looking restless. Larry O'Brien, who was openly eager to quit as Lyndon Johnson's Capitol Hill strategist before he was appointed Postmaster General, had any number of offers from private business at salaries up to $100,000 a year. Though U.S. publishers and big industrial companies have always looked kindly on job applicants who can produce references from the President, no graduating class has ever cashed in as handsomely as the New Frontiers' oldtimers...
...surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office?an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance, just prior...
...These precedent-shattering voyages?which probably will be followed by another next year, perhaps to Poland?have forever ended the tradition that the Pope is a prisoner of the Vatican They have clearly established, moreover, that he, like his namesake, the Apostle is a missionary at heart, eager to convey the Christian truth to the world at large...
Indeed, from the perspective of the sixties, the whole period has an air of unreality; to students eager to advance civil rights through social action, the legalistic defense of established civil liberties seems a limited and rather foreign battle. They view the Wisconsin Senator and the climate he fomented and fed on as anaberration which could not have lasted. And, in days of sit-ins, summer projects, and full page ads criticizing U.S. foreign policy placed in the Times by hundreds of academics, they would have trouble understanding the years in the early fifties. Then tenured professors thought long...