Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filial tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Richard F. Knoedler is the most academic of the three, displaying technical skill and a keen insight into character...
...should give Mr. Sinclair some satisfaction to realize that there is one garden spot on the map of intellectual American where young men are keen enough to perceive their danger when the freedom of their professors is threatened. Apparently not all students are willing performers in that universal goose-step which he so deplores. The strike at Millikin, one of the main features of which is the insistence of the undergraduates upon a free hand for the faculty in matters of instruction seems to indicate that the youth of the country is partially aware of the value of an education...
...ever keen to drive away
...Story. Ostensibly the account of one man's life, this is in reality a keen, sweeping arraignment of the destructive forces of "Waste" which the author visions as imperilling the America of today. His protagonist, Jarvis Thornton, ultimately works out a philosophy which one dimly feels to be the author's own panacea?if, indeed, one can be found?for the danger...
...their return from Europe, Charles and Kathleen Norris spent some weeks in Manhattan before seeking their California ranch life. This highly literary family is always interesting; for both Mr. Norris and his wife are vivid, keen-minded, hospitable...