Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders. Ensconced in carefully protected Hilton Hotel suites, far removed from the surging street crowds, are Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and their highnesses, Rainier and Grace. Unlike the youthful tourists, however, the beautiful people last week showed keen interest in some of the Olympic competition, especially the dressage qualification in horseback riding at the exclusive Riem Riding Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course. The man who took home gold that he hardly needed was Neapolitan Hosteler Angelo Scalzone. The impeccable socialite was mobbed...
PEOPLE beefing about the oppressive price of food may find it hard to believe, but the supermarket business has traditionally operated with profits as thin as a sales slip and competition as keen as a butcher's blade. Prices are going up not because supermarkets are squeezing out more money, but primarily because they have had to pay more to wholesalers, who in turn have had to pay more to farmers. The July wholesale price index rose at an annual rate of 8.4%, from 6% the month before, mainly because of food costs. Retail food prices will continue...
...Harmel. Under those conditions, Harmel added, the Belgians would just as soon stay home. "Pompidou is bluffing," said a Dutch Foreign Ministry official. "All right, let's cancel it for the time being." The West Germans, facing the possibility of a general election this fall, are no longer keen about having the summit at the same time. The British, who were initially enthusiastic about the conference, have been disenchanted by Pompidou's maneuvers. Though French officials now say that their President's threat was not meant to be taken literally, the other nine remain unimpressed...
...Norton, Libman contends that Stravinsky was actually more abstemious with words and less waspish and argumentative than the Craft collaborations suggest. Indeed, she maintains, many of the words are not Stravinsky's at all but Craft's. Libman calls into question Stravinsky's supposedly keen interest in new music, his thirst for prolonging feuds with colleagues and critics, his hard-edged style as a polemicist, even the authenticity of two recordings supposedly made by the composer...
...newly appointed President and Dean of Radcliffe, Matina Horner, could well be a more powerful voice for women in the University than was the Permanent Committee. From her perspective as a psychologist with a keen interest in feminine motivation and achievement, she comes to her office with a special sensitivity to the problems facing women at Harvard and Radcliffe. We hope she will combine the power of her office with her own interest in women to become a successful representative for all of us fighting for full equality for women in the University...