Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems to be taking part in politics...
...this should have presented no grave problem. The New Deal had two great agencies (USHA. FHA) whose business was mass housing. RFC, WPA could also be enlisted to finance and build emergency houses. Ensconced in the National Defense Advisory Commission was keen-eyed, balding Atlanta Builder Charles F. ("Chuck") Palmer, to coordinate all defense housing. His consultant was young (36), aggressive Washington Builder Gustave Ring, who had made a tidy fortune on apartment buildings which U. S. housing agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy...
...unveiling of a Wright Brothers monument in Dayton, Ohio, keen-eyed, sparse-haired Orville Wright (who has not piloted a plane since 1914) was presented with Civil Aeronautics Authority's Honorary Pilot's License...
...Almost invariably it is pretty stale stuff. Wyndham Lewis may have an advantage in being half American; in any case his America, I Presume is a bracing exception to the general rule. Some of it is obvious, some misfires, a good deal is so good it inspires keen regret that it is not a great deal better. Taken as a whole, America, I Presume can be guaranteed neither to bore nor blindfold any U. S. reader...
...connection between Rieber and Hitler's cumbersome ambassador-off-the-record to U. S. businessmen, Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick (TIME, Aug. 12), threatened to hit Texas Corp. in the cash register. Those who knew Cap Rieber were sure he was no pro-Nazi, although he had been keen to do business with Germany before the war. But they also felt his indiscretions and bad handling of the press had stirred prejudice and hysteria against him. Their explanation of the scandal was best put by Torkild Rieber himself: "My fault. I talk too much...