Word: keene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the other keen, questing intellects also left. Johnson was always a man who took public issues personally; dissent of any kind became increasingly intolerable to him. With many intellectuals in loud and often unreasonable opposition, his old feelings of insecurity and inferiority about his rural background and mediocre education became more pronounced...
...were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach an alltime high of about 9,600,000 cars. The U.S., with its 60 million families and 100 million cars, is fast approaching the reality of two cars in every garage...
During his knockabout years, Westermann acquired an irreverent imagination and a keen respect for craftsmanship. The Last Ray of Hope is a highly polished pair of workman's boots (he spent two weeks polishing them) set on a platform of linoleum foil and enclosed in an immaculately machined glass box. They suggest a display in the front window of some country store with a cracker barrel and iron stove in side. The title apparently has some obscure relevance in Westermann's mind to his reverence for honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They...
...began beaming his Sunday night broadcasts to BBC listeners over the globe. Unless you have a good short wave radio, it's impossible to listen to them in the U.S. Which is a pity for, as this collection of 42 such "Letters from America" convincingly demonstrates, Cooke has a keen eye for America and the variety of her people...
Ticket splitting this year seemed to become the national norm. Filling offices below the national ticket, voters in state after state indicated a keen sense of discrimination and a resistance to predictable patterns. In the House elections, incumbents seemed to enjoy the edge. In several Senate and gubernatorial contests, the voters reached for new personalities. In New York, Humphrey gained an easy victory, while the Republicans ended Democratic control of the state assembly...