Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professional football scouts are keen-eyed examiners whose charts detail how far a quarterback can throw, how fast a halfback can run the 40-yd. dash, or how many pounds a lineman can bench-press. The pro scouts' assessments of this year's football players were the basis for this year's college All-America team (see SPORT). In their reports, the scouts often single out talented yet unpublicized college players who go on to stardom in the N.F.L. One of TIME'S 1971 choices, for example, was an obscure University of Michigan guard...
...quality of the supporting cast was generally high. Portia made effective transitions from sharptongued young woman to romantic lover to merciful judge, though her voice sometimes took on too keen an edge to act as a genuine agent of reconciliation. Antonio (Peter Henderson) was properly grave and honorable; Bassanio (Jeffrey Rubin) was in higher spirits but equally good. Both played straight men, but the success of the play depended on them; unless we are made to feel that they are men of higher moral value than Shylock the play is a heap of incoherence. I would also single...
...accountant, he got his first break when he answered a newspaper ad placed by a Danish businessman whose English companies were struggling. Slater straightened them out and moved on, eventually becoming the right-hand man of Lord Stokes, then head of Leyland Motors. There Slater developed a keen eye for companies whose assets were worth more than the value of their issued stock...
...Lang's plays, at least, might garner a belated audience. Her keen sense of the theatrical has countered the recklessness of her peotics before--at an affecting reading shortly before her death, some of the spectators wondered if the shadows around her eyes had been deepened with greasepaint. Maybe Lurie hasn't admitted that the failure of her friend's writing to abide is less regretable than the loss of a strange improvisor of real experience...
...TOUR: I have the same keen anticipation to see the U.S. that I had 50-odd years ago [when he first contemplated an American visit]. I don't think the things I wanted to see when I was young will be exactly the same. Circumstances have changed, as well as my position and my status. But I would like to see as many things as time permits...