Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily incorporated into his Das Kapital...
Once again, Nasser had played his hand with skill. After keeping the canal blocked for months as a lever on Western nations, he had converted its opening into a kind of reverse lever. For shippers were so eager to resume transit that they rushed through without a quibble at his terms. Italian, Greek and West German (as well as Communist) vessels were in the first convoy. The U.S., Britain and France were still "advising" their ships to avoid the canal for the moment while they dickered for better terms...
Brother Marcel, at 69 still spry, witty and eager to shock, would put it a little differently. On his way to Houston last week, where he will lecture the convention on "The Creative Act," he proclaimed: "Painting today is a Wall Street affair. When you make a business out of being a revolutionary, what are you? A crook. As Brancusi used to say, 'Art is a swindle...
...family tragedy by George Staples, shows serious thought, solid dramatic potential, and a great debt to Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although the cast often does not reach potential depths of character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging was often too static...
...onetime bodyguard, Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, who had taken power in East Indonesia, Sumual protested in Dutch: "My God, you all think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...