Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paintings, numbering over 80, include portraits, landscapes and still life subjects. They are unusual on account of their technical excellence. Dr. Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief...
...intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real it might have been recorded on a dictaphone to be set down at leisure. This nimble athletic technique seems ideally suited to the short story form. Since he wrote, "The Sun Also Rises," the author has trained down fine: with a keen psychological insight he gives only the significant aspects of the brief dramatic incidents. There are no airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry...
...Norton's interest in education in the college was hardly more keen than his interest in education in the schools. In both his chief concern was the cultivation of the imagination. I have in mind not only the inestimable value of his active cooperation and wise counsel to the school which, at his request, was established in Cambridge to provide opportunities for his own boys; but also a bit of personal experience in that connection which throws a significant light on his character...
...recent "Vie de Disraeli", was more inclined to talk about his impressions of Harvard than of himself and his writings. He spent some time strolling through the Yard, declaring himself fascinated by the old buildings and the air of quiet which pervaded the lawns and paths. He evinced a keen interest in the Fogg Museum, and also praised the Widener Library for the size and magnificence of its collection. It was the Business School, however, which most attracted M. Maurois' attention. Having been a wool manufacturer himself until he took up writing ten years ago, he could intimately appreciate...
...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...