Word: keen
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...someone capable of more vigorous leadership. Challengers were not hard to find. Mills himself, head of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, was the conservatives' favorite, but he has given up any thought of challenging Albert. A few liberal Congressmen wanted Boggs for the job. "I have been very keen for a contest over the speakership," says one Midwestern Democrat. "And I have been in favor of having Hale move up. This thing [Boggs' disappearance] has been a catastrophic blow. What it means is that we are apparently left without an alternative." A sampling taken since Boggs was declared...
...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
Kissinger argues fairly persuasively that at least part of the blame for the drawn-out negotiations must be laid to the style and temperament of the U.S.'s adversaries. As a Johnson Administration adviser in the 1960s, Kissinger was a keen student of the Vietnamese negotiating style. In his remarkably prescient Foreign Affairs article, Kissinger noted "the peculiar negotiating style of Hanoi: the careful planning, the subtle, indirect methods, the preference for opaque communications which keep open as many options as possible." North Vietnamese diplomacy, he observed, operated in somewhat baffling "cycles of reconnaissance and withdrawal." Even...
Serious Failure. Grasping such ideas requires skillful reading, but Adler finds that U.S. schools stop teaching reading by the sixth grade. To Adler, this is a serious failure, for he believes that only reading well can provide a continuing education, and that the skills it requires-keen observation, wide imagination and reflective analysis -can all be taught. His How to Read a Book was an attempt to do precisely that. In the new edition (Simon & Schuster; $8.95), Adler has added material on novels and poetry as well as syntopical reading (how to read two or more books on the same...
...causes as President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, Congressman Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.). and the Children's Foundation. In such capacities, Duly has earned tributes regularly reserved for God and Eleanor Roosevelt, drawing praise for scrupulous and blunt honesty while awing Washington's Camelot-prone denizens with a keen ability to persuade. Under Daly, the OGCA has discharged with impressive finesse the monitoring of potentially inimical laws in Washington and Massachusetts administration of the Nieman Fellows program, negotiations with Cambridge residents--and not at all least helping to flatten bills which endangered Harvard interests...