Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played with a keen awareness of each other's musical statements, matching and blending their expression and style into one voice...
Died. Laurence L. Winship, 85, who joined the Boston Globe in 1912, later served as Sunday editor, managing editor (1937-55) and editor before retiring in 1965 (he was succeeded by his son Thomas); after a long illness; in Marlborough, Mass. A tough-minded but easygoing newsman with a keen sense for big political stories, Winship put his old reporter's hat back on after retirement to cover the 1968 national party conventions for the Globe...
...story said that seniors in the Social Studies Department--Soc Stud seniors, the elite cream of Harvard--were not especially keen on writing theses this year, Twenty-three of the 55 seniors had decided not to write them. And these were supposed to be scholars, these Soc Stud seniors--at least, they were supposed to be more scholarly than George Reyes, who regularly earns Group III grades; who did not take lecture notes when he first came to Harvard because it seemed unnecessary; and who has not once in four years gone to a professor's office hours (and resents...
...purchasing country who had smoothed the way for the deal. By and large, weapons these days are sold like any other manufactured product: in straightforward boardroom deals that have been scrutinized by lawyers and checked thoroughly by accountants, and are supervised carefully by government agencies. Where there is keen competition among several suppliers, however, some arms companies try a little harder. "Graft fuels almost every arms transaction," admits a veteran European arms trader. In his view, the main factor determining the size of the bribe required to make a sale is the degree to which power is dispersed within...
...best in the film, revealing that the film makers have been interested in apologizing for George, not satirizing him. Still, much of Shampoo is good enough to make one regret its ultimate failure. The overpriced lassitude of Southern California living is well caught. Much of the dialogue has a keen edge ("I've been cutting too much hair lately," George rues at one point. "I'm losing all my concept"). The acting-especially Grant and Warden and Carrie Fisher, who appears as their nubile daughter-is well observed and sprightly. But Shampoo wants it both ways. It wants...