Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Borges--then a librarian--by making him a provincial poultry inspector) Borges has a great love for the United States. "After all," he recalls, "it came to me in the best way, through literature--Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Melville. . . . What I find very admirable is that people here have a keen sense of right and wrong...
...psychiatrist who also practices in an academic community, I read Dr.Graham Blaine's comments on the "Crisis in Confidence" in the UHS psychiatric services with keen interest. Fortunately, Dr. Blaine is candid about the two-faced policy the health service follows with regard to confidentiality. If he feels free to decide unilaterally in an area as critical as the decision to take one's own life, that it is not his patient's right to have these most private thoughts kept in confidence, how is the patient to know what other sensitive area will be beyond the good doctor...
Houphouët is just as pragmatic in his politics. A bush doctor for 15 years and later the founding father of the country's 25-year-old Democratic Party, he has a keen understanding of his people. He shuns flowery forensics and reads his speeches in a soft, professorial voice. Like any other wily African tribal chief, he also does nothing to discourage stories of his black-magic prowess, or rumors that he consults the sacred crocodiles in his palace pond...
...confined in Theresienstadt, and in 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz. His mother and his wife died in concentration camps. Another casualty was the manuscript of a book on which he had worked for years. Dr. Frankl survived three camps, and has written of his experiences with a keen humanism as well as psychiatric insight. Since World War II, he has won wider recognition, and he now heads the neurological department of Vienna's famed Poliklinik Hospital...
...popularity low and dropping, he concluded that there was unrest and a yearning for strong leadership but also an undercurrent of sympathy for the President. Smith Hempstone covered the Middle East war with lyrical intensity, highlighting particularly the plight of the Arab victims. Political Writer Paul Hope showed a keen eye for detail as he followed George Romney around New Hampshire and found some surprising pockets of support for the governor...