Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence were needed that a new day has dawned for the CIA, there it was: a Help Wanted ad in the business and finance section of the New York Times. The agency was interested in applicants with a "keen interest in international affairs," "foreign language aptitude," and "desire and ability to serve overseas." Women and minorities were "encouraged to apply." Starting salary: $13,662 to $16,618. Just what exactly is the job slot the agency is trying to fill? Surprise. Despite its firing of some 260 members of the cloak-and-dagger Directorate of Operations division since last fall...
...would have taken a very keen student of the game to predict that the wiry young South African with the ungainly swing, who missed the cut in his first Masters back in 1957, would go on to become the fourth man in the history of golf to win all four major tournaments...
Player once said: "All South Africans have this powerful feeling for land, and this has come down through the generations, too. My father had a keen eye. He was very good with a rifle, very good with golf clubs, and had this feeling for the lie of the land ... I do believe that I have some of it, in relation to golf ... I certainly have a feeling for the drainage of a golf hole, the sheltering effect of trees, the feel of the surface soil under my spikes...
...reportage and fiction, Ward Just has kept keen watch on the combat of war and politics. Here he extends his reach, trying for a Great American Novel of the heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...
...PALMA HAS CAST the film magnificently, with a keen satirical eye. Giving the lead roles to Kirk Douglas and Carrie Snodgrass must be his audacious reply to those who would put all-American zombies like Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in similar roles. Kirk Douglas's face has never seemed longer, and that dimple never more defiant. With the stature and angry leer of a depraved baboon (perfect for a DePalma hero), and a cuddly, newfound warmth, Douglas looks like a MAD magazine caricature of himself, and that is somehow very appropriate. Carrie Snodgrass, in her first appearance since Diary...