Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hara worked hard at his craft. He retained a keen interest in current slang, and the 1972 supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary credits him as the source of 11 words, including the now familiar "fuck-up." He was particularly concerned with the visual composition of the printed paragraph. As a young writer, he spent hours over A Farewell to Arms, using Hemingway's paragraphing as a model for his own work...
...this particular rabbit had a fast line of back talk, a keen sense of irony and an indomitable lust for survival. Cartoon heroes, if you think about it, tend to be victims. Either that or insufferable, like Mickey Mouse. Only Bugs Bunny managed to triumph in his struggles against an assortment of splenetic aggressors without ever getting smug...
...most startling physical characteristic of a soap is its sound. Soaps keen. The plots jerk along in a series of moans...
Graham has a keen eye for picking talent and gives her editors much latitude. But she does not hesitate to shuffle executives abruptly. The newspaper division, for example, has had three different business managers in as many years. Her top corporate officer is President Larry H. Israel, 56, whom she hired from the presidency of the Group W stations. She has been stage-managing the paper's operations since the strike directly through the newspaper's general manager, Mark J. Meagher, 40. Coming up fast is Graham's son Donald, 30, who serves as Meagher...
...time: Matisse, Delaunay, Gross, Mondrian, Kay Nelson. But in looking at the works as a retrospective of the major aesthetic revolutions of our time, Kupka's theoretical contribution to those revolutions should not be ignored. Nor should his artistic (well, not genius, but) talent: his sensuous lyricism, keen sensitivity, and his occasional inspiration. Kupka is a mirror worth looking...