Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers and artists wish that they could be craftsmen first and Negroes second, but they find it virtually impossible. Yet more & more Negroes are impatient with spirituals and the blues (including the literary form of the blues, also known as the novel of protest). Many intelligent Negroes are plainly eager to stop looking at every problem through colored glasses. One interesting symptom: Negroes used to have a kind of secret slang? which, as one Negro writer puts it, was "like a tattoo on your wrist"; it has now all but disappeared. Says Negro Photographer Gordon Parks: "There is this pressure...
...first time I called I was told that the gentleman who placed the advertisement was out, but that he would be very eager to speak to me about the job later that day. The second time I called I gave my name and, after a short pause, was told that the man was in conference and could not be reached that...
...ambassador, informally dressed in a grey wool jersey dress and tan polo coat, was quickly caught up in the crush. Crowded from corner to corner by the eager cameramen, she could scarcely get through a statement-mostly in careful Italian-that she had prepared for her arrival. "I am proud to come here as the ambassador of a President and a country that wants what Italy wants most-to help build for all of us the house of security on the rock of justice and liberty," said Ambassador Luce...
...ordinarily a 30-minute show presided over by Sarah Churchill and devoted to inspirational playlets. It cost a total of $180,000, required 80 tons of scenery, five cameras, three weeks of rehearsal and a cast of 28. Evans and the other stars were so eager to make Hamlet a success that they worked for the minimum union scale...
...opinion (which Hollywood is no doubt eager to bear) after the novelty of depth perception is enjoyed the first time, 3-D films are going to be judged on the same basis as any other films that is, "is it any good?" and not, "is it three dimensional...