Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detective (Facet; Columbia). The priest as the detective-symbolizing consecrated good against dedicated evil-appealed to G. K. Chesterton's keen sense of antithesis, and in the Father Brown stories he rammed the paradox, like an intellectual skeleton, through some otherwise flabby fiction. In this movie based on the stories, the intellectual skeleton is removed, and the film falls all of a sentimental heap...
...Winchell yowled that he was the tool of the big oil interests because the Arabian American Oil Co. had air-conditioned his apartment). When the U.S. recognized Israel, Henderson once more became an embarrassment and was shipped out as Ambassador to India. He and Pandit Nehru quickly developed a keen mutual dislike for each other...
...Keen Analysis...
Student association member Samuel McM. Keen 2Dv, is preparing a written reply to Coffee's charges. "Coffee's article misrepresents the purpose of the administration," he commented last night. "The University does not in any way mean to supplant the study of history here. It merely wishes to supplement the historical side of religion with other important and previously neglected aspects...
...historical method of studying religion," according to Keen, "is not historical until it takes into account the experience that produced the events and doctrines studied by such method...