Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancillary characters in Macbeath, compared with those in the other great tragedies, are notoriously sketchy. But they constitute the chief acting strength of this production. Donald Harron's Banquo is keen and alert; and Hiram Sherman's drunken Porter is properly diverting...
...Trial of Doctor Adams (TIME, March 16, 1959), she showed a spectacular talent for lending suspense and excitement to a criminal trial by heightening, not distorting, the events through unsparing observation. Since then she has prowled courts in Britain and all over Europe, observing, with her keen novelist's eye, the quality of justice...
...money to build new schools and supply existing ones. Every Wednesday evening in Santarém a group of teen-aged boys "who would be in police wagons in any other town" visit him. "We discuss everything from sex to satellites and they love it," says Ryan. "Besides a keen interest in Scripture they ask me such questions as 'Why do nuns cover their ears?' and 'What kind of medicine do priests take so they won't have to have a woman?' " (His answer: "Prayer...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
...bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected and put on the market in 1951, helped to turn bowling into the most popular U.S. competitive sport. Despite keen competition from the Brunswick Corp., AMF has remained the world's largest maker of automatic Pin setters. With 68,000 machines already on lease in the U.S. (for an average annual gross of $68 million), AMF last week got $3,000,000 contract to equip a new chain...