Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager to please, she seems perpetually astonished at her power to give pleasure, as if the double-take she often uses were her own second nature. More fun to be with than any musicomedienne since Gertrude Lawrence, Gwen Verdon gives a theatergoer the rare sensation that his ticket has been underpriced...
Those anxious to hear the magic of the tickertape machine and the merry ring of their heels on the pavement will be eager to add intensity to the News Board competition. And if you favour the daguerreotype to scoops and sports, the Photography Competition, with free training and professional equipment, will not keep you in the dark for long...
When the doors are opened to candidates at 14 Plympton Street tomorrow and Friday nights, eager (or just thirsty) freshmen and sophomores will be introduced both to an institution which has intruded daily into their undergraduate lives, and hopefully, to a rewarding phase of their College careers...
...years younger than he is, climbed down into coal mines to spread the word. He spoke over the radio, taught the maids in the hotels he stayed at how to use their navels while cleaning and scrubbing.*His crusade got results. Executives found themselves less tense, employees more eager, and the phrase "Your navel isn't in it" is now a part of the Japanese language. Today 160 firms and organizations are members of the Navel Heaven movement...
Staged by Michael Murray, the production has clarity and pace and a disarming respect for O'Casey. Yet the actors, particularly John Heffernan in the role of the poet, seem more eager to present a "compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment...