Word: keening
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...know," he says. "People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...
...Train killed Old Red," Ross Sizemore said. On Sunday, Nov. 18, 1974, he had been keen to go coon hunting--"wanted to go so bad I couldn't stand it" was the way he put it--but there was something disrespectful about hunting on Sunday so he made himself wait until after midnight. At 3 a.m. Sizemore and Old Red were on a train trestle when a southbound freight roared onto the bridge...
...prose forays don't convince people that he knows a lot about Life's Important Questions, Townshend peppers his stories with a bibliography of the Very Impressive Writers he knows about. He refers to Proust and Joyce. He lists Conrad, Burgess, Bashevis Singer and Balzac as writers he's keen on, as well as P.G. Wodehouse and H.E. Bates: "I read fairly heavy stuff. To mention all the authors might make me sound pretentious...
...okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes an extended lullaby for rationality. This may not guarantee the record a lingering chart life, but it is rock at its most enterprising and numinous...
President Bok, who has traditionally taken a keen interest in athletic matters, as well as the seven other Ivy League presidents chose not to attend the special convention, which drew college heads than ever before. Reardon and Fox both suggested that the convention's lack of bearing on Harvard prompted Bok to pass up the trip to New Orleans...