Word: keening
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...Corners touchingly and devotedly serve the script that Wilder said was "an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." The characters all talk pretty much the same way, but Wilder could not have fashioned their colloquial speech without a keen ear and much hard work...
Iris Murdoch, Litt.D., novelist and philosopher (The Sacred and Profane Love Machine). For her keen insight into the human condition...
...Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played with a keen awareness of each other's musical statements, matching and blending their expression and style into one voice...
Died. Laurence L. Winship, 85, who joined the Boston Globe in 1912, later served as Sunday editor, managing editor (1937-55) and editor before retiring in 1965 (he was succeeded by his son Thomas); after a long illness; in Marlborough, Mass. A tough-minded but easygoing newsman with a keen sense for big political stories, Winship put his old reporter's hat back on after retirement to cover the 1968 national party conventions for the Globe...
...story said that seniors in the Social Studies Department--Soc Stud seniors, the elite cream of Harvard--were not especially keen on writing theses this year, Twenty-three of the 55 seniors had decided not to write them. And these were supposed to be scholars, these Soc Stud seniors--at least, they were supposed to be more scholarly than George Reyes, who regularly earns Group III grades; who did not take lecture notes when he first came to Harvard because it seemed unnecessary; and who has not once in four years gone to a professor's office hours (and resents...