Word: keen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cheryl Hollman Keen, joint coordinator of the Committee on International Studies and a student at the Graduate School of Education, has helped to establish a computerized information bank of members of the Harvard community interested in international affairs...
...Smith, once a jock for and good friend to Maryland Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 67, met Widower Astaire eight years ago while she was riding the California tracks; their feelings quickly became parimutual. Astaire wants her to keep on jockeying if they marry; railbirds may not be so keen. Smith's only other winner this season was a Santa Anita mount six weeks ago named Rock 'n Royalty...
Whose Life Is It Anyway? concerns the right to die. Claire Harrison (Moore), a sculptor, has suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash that has left her paralyzed from the neck down. Her keen, sprightly mind is scalded by her vision of the future. Never to work. Never to love again. To be robbed of her own will by the hospital chief (Josef Sommer), who feels free to sedate her with a tranquilizing needle during a fit of depression...
...begin with, the relationship between the four Boston women's teams is a somewhat tenuous one at present. There are no established leagues in women's hockey, so the keen rivalries will take time to develop...
...those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love, a horrific illegal abortion, even an infanticide of mythic proportion. Other beginnings-an unfulfilled love affair, a suicide attempt-erupt with a pyrotechnic glare that gradually dims under the author's keen, ironic scrutiny. In this case, the prologue is an end unto itself...