Word: keening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest addition to the maleness canon is Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly (Bantam; 272 pages; $19.95), which is beginning what may be a long residence on the best-seller lists. While Bly provides the pragmatic poetry of contemporary manhood, Keen offers some poetic pragmatism. His book does not so much compete with Bly's as complement it, offering the yin of personal experience to Bly's yang of mythological precedent...
Fire in the Belly is that rare thing: a literate and lyrical self-help book. Like Bly, who uses a Grimm brothers' myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...
...know how I got the number, but I made sure I got it," Cleary says. "I quickly learned he had some special qualities. He had that sense of maturity about him. He's a very keen observer...
...serious person," says Professor of Government Martin Kilson, who has known Minter for nearly four years. "What I mean by that is she has a sense of what is significant in both the life of the mind and the pragmatic world... She's intellectually keen and sharp, and this keenness is tempered by a tremendous pragmatic sensitivity...
Less than a week after Saddam Hussein's tanks smashed into Kuwait last August, Dan Quayle found himself on a plane to Bogota, Colombia. Initially Quayle had not been keen about making the trip. Jetting off to South America while war clouds gathered in the Persian Gulf was not the sort of assignment that would show that the Vice President was "in the loop" at the White House. But George Bush insisted that his Vice President go. There was more to the trip than representing the U.S. at the inauguration of the new Colombian President...