Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life." One of his collages, from 1948, contains the word POP issuing from the barrel of a gun: a prediction that amuses Paolozzi today. "People sometimes say that I missed the boat, that I should have made a career out of Pop art. But I was never keen on it. I felt there should be more to it than simple artifacts, consumer goods; and I'm still more interested in making layers of paradox and irony...
...Island 11 that whipped Brown last Saturday. Northeastern dropped a surprising 10-7 decision to a Bridgeport squad that wasn't supposed to cause any particular trouble. A triumph over the Purple Knights would have given Zabilski his 99th coaching victory at Northeastern, and provided his players with a keen emotional incentive against Harvard. The incentive isn't there...
...reason is not that the community pillars have suddenly gone wrong en masse. On the contrary, the Jaycees have never been more responsible or achievement-oriented. In fact, a keen awareness of civic duty has led the organization to focus on new causes. In Philadelphia last month, Jaycees met with Black Panthers to rap on drugs and a sickle-cell anemia testing program; a group in Seattle is hoping to help set up halfway houses for parolees. The most important new approach centers on an aggressive drive to attract members in the nation's prisons. There...
...Beats. He attempts to provide some historical perspective with a name here, an influence there. But mainly he depends on rhetoric, and it blows his subject out of all proportion: "No writer better than he has ever infused travel-simply getting from one place to another-with such a keen sense of adventure." This to describe Kerouac. But, even granting such a restricted distinction, any travel book by Sir Richard Burton, to name but one other writer, makes Kerouac's sense of adventure seem like a pinball ricocheting in a glass-enclosed prison of lights and bells...
...stage until it drifted off the tube. Then, in order to bring it back into sight, Fendell would have to press an-other button precisely two seconds after liftoff, ordering the camera to pull back to a wide-angle view. Noting NASA's -and the public's-keen interest in watching the lunar liftoff, Fendell conceded that "if we don't see it, I'd better get out of town...