Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would set in, and he would groan: "The devil...
...Eager audiences last week thronged to look at a modern, Broadway-styled musical comedy dealing with a local subject. Its title: Moscow-Cheryomushki. Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich...
Many companies, dazzled by the glamour of automation, have leaped into it before looking at costs or determining whether they really need to automate. "Some managements," says Automation Expert John Diebold, president of John Diebold & Associates, "are so eager to buy the hardware that they will unconsciously overlook some of their cost figures to prove they need one." They do not realize that preparing for and converting to automation can cost as much as the computer itself. Before leasing a brain at $16,000 a month, Republic National Bank of Dallas had to send ten employees to school...
Risk & Opportunity. The job is giant size-and a job for giants. Many an eager-beaver company found that out when it jumped into atomics in 1954 after the Government first permitted firms to own reactors, was forced to drop out in the face of expense and uncertainty. Today, the maturing U.S. atomics industry is made up of about 100 major Government and privately owned manufacturing and research organizations. They range from such small firms as Baird-Atomic, Inc. and Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms...
...that I have been delighted to find so many men like yourself who, in a period known to many critics as the Age of Conformity, have been eager to experiment with a new idea. I am grateful to you for this expression of independence and genuine interest. Sincerely yours, John M Bullitt Master Quincy House