Word: keening
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...Well, only nine out of 37 seen each copy that you've send recently. All the uneducated people keen to see such magazines pictures and cut them hanging and fixed to walls and roofings [rafters] of their Tongan houses. But they first keen to know and understand from any reader what's that picture for? Who are these men on the cover of every TIME? Good or Bad, Brave or wealthy, Communist or else...
...draw the cover, we called on Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who is not much of a racing fan but has a keen eye for political horseflesh. Although this is his first magazine cover, his witty vignettes have often appeared in TIME'S pages. At 42, one of the country's top editorial cartoonists, Conrad has his home base at the Los Angeles Times, but 150 other newspapers use his work, which illustrates Aldous Huxley's observation that caricature is the "most penetrating" of criticism...
...responsible for the entire concert was music-major Jan Johnson, '68. Conductor, page-turner and general impresario, Johnson showed a keen appreciation of Ives and did an admirable job of bringing his music to life. A "hats off, gentlemen" from Eusebius was certainly in order...
...wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think he's keen. Says one fan: "His French songs give me the feeling of not being in Chicago, which many of us find very gratifying...
...most U.S. campuses these days, grantsmanship-the fine art of picking off research funds-is almost as important to professorial prestige as the ability to teach or carry out the research once a grant is landed. The competition is keen and the potential prizes are well worth the effort: the Federal Government and private foundations annually present the nation's universities with a $5 billion bonanza in research money...