Word: keen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peachy keen, but at Harvard he's through...
...lawyer who died at 56, never having felt keen pain. When one of his fingers was crushed in an accident, he bit it off. A spreading abscess which threatened his life evoked no pain even when it was lanced. Cataracts were removed from both eyes without an anesthetic. Only on his deathbed did he complain of a little discomfort...
...stranger seeing him for the first time striding along the campus of Princeton University or lunching with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds...
...latter hobby brought him a commission in the Navy in 1940. After four years in the Atlantic on minesweepers and destroyer escorts, White went to Washington to work for James Forrestal in smoothing the transition to a peace-time Navy. Discharged as a Commander in 1945, he remains a keen salt water sailor, piloting his fifty-foot German-built yawl "Blue Water" through the coves of Long Island Sound "as often as possible." As a weekend skipper, White has won several races, although he lost his mainsail the only time he entered the famed Bermuda regatta...
...obscure, but Capote's own shrewd guess is that the opera's message about people being happy though they have "plenty of nothin'" conforms to the Kremlin notion of the American Negroes as "poverty-pinched and segregated in the ghetto of Catfish Row." With the keen ear of a private eye for the giveaway phrase, Author Capote recorded the adventures of the Porgy company from the time they entrained in East Berlin to the première in Leningrad two nights and a day later. The result is an hilarious tour de farce, a knockabout comedy...