Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other meet results were a mixed bag, attesting to the keen competition displayed by both sides. Geoff Stiles nabbed a third place Crimson finish in the pole vault, and Harvard only managed to eke out second and third place showings in the hammer and weight throw events respectively...
Alan Lupo's Liberty's Chosen Home, a landmark study of the crisis precipitated three years ago by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision to implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs...
...traffic problems Normally, they would be referred to a councilor, but because the conservative Boston City Council is elected at-large instead of by districts, councilors can ignore requests from neighborhoods where they expect little support. So the representative's share of constituent services increases. Frank has a keen knowledge of city operations because of his work in the White administration and is able to deal efficiently with the problems his constituents bring to him. Vice-Mayor Edward T. Sullivan said last week, "We probably try to respond to Barney's legitimate request for services faster than most...
Director Joan Channick has a keen sense of tone and pacing, and, for the most part, she guides her actors through the play's precipitous shifts of mood without any loss of balance. Her success is ensured by a brilliant cast, who play their roles--and the roles within their roles--to the hilt...
...golf course. Two of them-Bob Coder, from Florida, and his wife Virginia-strolled out the front door of the Lake Victoria Hotel and there, to their surprise, was President Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada. Two British newspaper colleagues were with the President, who was plainly keen to show both us and President Jimmy Carter that Americans living in Uganda are in no danger...