Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haley's keen sense of separation and loss, and his ability to forge a return in language, override Roots' considerable structural and stylistic flaws. The book should find a permanent home in a century teeming with physical and spiritual exiles...
Haley's narrative of the three generations of slaves in his family, dating from 1767 to the Civil War, is as keen as his African chapters. To ensure an accurate depiction of his ancestor's crossing of the Atlantic in a slave ship, Haley took a freighter from Africa to the United States, climbing down into the ship's cold dark cargo hold to lie on the rough planks stripped down to his underwear. Kunta's initial difficulty understanding and respecting American-born blacks, the selling of his daughter to the owner of a distant plantation, rape...
...political ad in last year's election supplement, by chance he discovered a "plot" to hijack all of that morning's Crimsons. After alerting the business staff of the nefarious scheme, Al introduced to the council and saw to passage an order that Cambridge police keep a "keen and constant watch" on the Out of Town newsstands. Thanks to his vigilance, no Crimsons were stolen that election...
Once that issue was decided, the Reaganites seemed to lose any keen interest in the infighting. Ford's men gave some ground, however, in agreeing to explicit language supporting the U.S.'s mutual defense treaty with Taiwan. As for detente, Ford's supporters were able to fend off any direct criticism of current Administration policy. An intriguing sidelight: a draft by the platform-committee staff mentioned Richard Nixon's opening to China, but subcommittee members voted to delete this only reference in the platform to the disgraced former President...
...wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles." Pat Doran, 62, a Blaine riding stable operator, is footing most expenses himself, and, like many other nonofficial drivers, is getting additional money from local groups and private donations. Tom Keen, a Walla Walla, Wash., construction worker, took up his wife Pat's challenge to build his own covered wagon; the couple sold their two cars, trailer house and furniture to finance the trip...