Word: keening
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...Bunk Detector. What the Now Generation possesses in every stratum is a keen ability to sense meaning on many levels at the same time. In its psychological armory it counts a powerful array of weapons-both defensive and offensive. Foremost among them...
...last year went begging. In 1966, about one-third of the engineering jobs available were unfilled, partly because so many seniors went on to graduate school. This year more firms than ever plan to recruit on more campuses, and Endicott expects that the hiring competition will be "very, very keen...
...islands of the Caribbean, Barbados has never been out of English hands since it was settled in 1627. Driving is on the left; neat hedges or stone walls mark property lines; the effective civil service and the police are very British; there is tea at 4, and everyone is keen on cricket. In fact, everything is so teddibly, teddibly British that the capital of Bridgetown has a Trafalgar Square, complete with statue of Lord Nelson, that was built before London...
...year, and that will present a new problem of prosperity. Once the demands of Viet Nam are over, this surplus will be a "fiscal drag" that could lead the economy into recession, unless policymakers return the surplus to the people in the form of "fiscal dividends." Heller is less keen on tax cuts now; he has, in fact, been calling since early this year for strictly temporary and quickly reversible tax increases to frustrate inflation...
...image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...