Word: keen
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...retains a keen appreciation of the maverick qualities of his adopted home town, which was only 30 years old when McMullan arrived with his family in 1926 at the age of four. "Miami is still trying to sort out its values," he says. "There was a time when if you had eliminated the ex-cons from the University of Miami's board of trustees, you would have taken off some of the best people in town." The McMullan style will be difficult to emulate. His successor, former Managing Editor Heath Meriwether, 39, will not try. Says he: "My approach...
...some of the most adventurous rock of the past decade. When it did not work, it sounded trendy or tuned out. But when it did hit, which was most of the time, it laid down rules and set new marks for others to follow. Bowie kept the cutting edge keen. There are few punks or New Wavers or art rockers or New Dancers dancing to New Music who do not owe him an abiding debt. Everyone from Gary Numan to Talking Heads and Human League and Culture Club ought to make a deep bow in his direction. If the success...
What follows is a blow by blow account of Harvard's summer game, and keen University-watchers will note quickly the haunting parallels to the regular college itself. The summer student, like the winter resident, must contend with the tribulations of Harvard housing: the scaffolds, the hammers, and a contract prohibiting "firearms of any type, animals and pets of any kind, air-conditioning and food preparation appliances, high-wattage appliances of any type, water beds, and motorcycles." Each also eats in the same dining halls responsible, as much as anything else, for the thriving restaurant economy in the surrounding Square...
After developing for ten years what is by all accounts a good working and personal relationship with President Bok. Rosovsky has gained a keen sense of the distinction between Mass Hall business and Faculty business. "There are enough tough issues to go around," he says, noting that he tells audiences he never discusses two topics: other faculties and MATEP. Harvard's embattled $250 million power plant...
...than if they meet each other in diplomatic roles. Here they're free agents," he adds. "The Center contributes to broaden them personally." Just being in the University community, in fact, can have that effect; In the late 1960's and early '70s, Brown says, the Fellows took a keen interest in the student marches and protests, and some of them actually joined them...