Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though eager to remind you of its versatility, the camera occasionally wanders out of the kitchen where the action takes place, into other rooms or into the garden, but its travels add nothing to the play. The film version, however, brings the play two dividends: notable music by Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script...
...Kenneth Clark snapped up one; the Tate Gallery's Sir John Rothenstein was almost too late, barely managed to get the picture he wanted. After a week, everything was sold, including all Reynolds' drawings and watercolors, and there was a waiting list of 40 eager patrons, including Actor John Gielgud, Leeds's City Art Gallery and Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum...
...telephone bill at the Harvard CRIMSON averages about $500 a month. Not all of this total is consumed in calls to Wellesley; a goodly sum also goes for long distance calls to Washington, New York and New Haven as eager Crimeds frantically ferret out news at its sources...
...part of an author of best selling if not memorable novels. Thus Mr. Cronyn can be humorously sarcastic without imposing on the audience's credulity; his lines are what one might expect from a clever, superficial writer. As his wife, Miss Tandy progresses from a blushing but eager bride to a mature woman without any false crises. Rather her growth can be seen in the way she addresses her husband, her taste in clothes, and her manner of walking...
...after the private utilities had constructed a number of dams on the Columbia's tributaries, the superiority of Government projects became apparent. Dams operated by one administration instead of a number of private companies produce fifteen to twenty per cent more electricity, each. The citizens of the Northwest, eager for multi-purpose projects, realized that no private power company was going to operate its dams to aid irrigation, flood control, navigation, or recreation...