Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stunned by the keen insight that Gerald Clarke displayed in analyzing the psyche of our generation [June 29]. He placed our entrails on the table and read the signs with uncanny accuracy. He spoke to me, and I am reeling from the effect. However, we have never been a I "lost" generation, silent perhaps but not lost. We are the last generation to have found any foothold at all in this slippery world...
...native Australia until 1939, when he joined the Australian News and Information Bureau in New York. His 15 years at TIME were interrupted only by a four-year freelance writing stint. To his friends he was a rare, complex, rewarding and endearing man. His death is a keen loss to his colleagues, to TIME and to its readers...
...most militant campus types often tend to be underclassmen-not seniors suddenly faced with work or the draft. Says one Princetonian: "Many seniors are out working for peace candidates. Graduation to them is irrelevant." Yet the reverse is also true: this year many students have shown a particularly keen interest in commencement-as amended...
...looks more at home on a horse as TV's Matt Dillon. But Gunsmoke Star James Arness is a hard-riding surfer who has instilled a keen enthusiasm for the sport in his son Rolf, 18. Says young Arness: "You can get so stoked [deliriously happy] on waves that you can't stand it." His father knows the feeling-and the surfers' jargon. When his bov called from Melbourne, Australia, with the news that he had been crowned world surfboard champion, Big Jim answered, "Son, I'm stoked...
Nixon. who must dream at night of being out of the war. is a weak man who is afraid of appearing so. Even a strong man like Johnson, with keen political instincts. was overwhelmed by the inertia of the office he held. Who could feel motivated to initiate change with only David and Julie to talk...