Word: keening
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...journalism schools have always been journalists. They range from the self-taught reporter who resents any man with a college degree to the well-educated editor who objects to watering down college curriculums with courses in headline writing. Last week the University of New Mexico's Keen Rafferty, 59, chairman of the smallest accredited journalism department in the U.S. (two faculty members, 45 students), talked back to some of journalism's biggest critics with some rip-roaring criticism...
...foresightedly left their "germ cells" deep-frozen in an underground bank. Future parents may be able to leaf through a germ-cell catalogue and pick the father of their next child on the basis of "personifications of their own ideals-the generally admired primary virtues of high character, keen all-round intelligence, and sound physique," and such traits as "a joyful disposition, musical proclivities, aptness at repartee, rapid calculation, courage or endurance...
...such a political climate, the job of convincing or, if necessary, pushing the Congress into following the Administration has become one of the toughest and most sensitive in Washington. It requires keen understanding of the equations of politics. The President's man on Capitol Hill must know instinctively which Congressmen will respond to deference or flattery, which ones require threats or pressures from home, which ones will leap at the hint of presidential support in the next campaign. O'Brien possesses such understanding in good measure. And he is an expert in the political uses of power, patronage...
...transaction was as complex as keen-eyed tax lawyers could make it. As soon as his Empire State Building Associates takes title to the property next December 27, Wien (rhymes with keen) will sell the building to the Prudential Insurance Co. for $29 million. Prudential, which already owns the land on which the Empire State sits (worth $17 million), will turn right around and lease the building and land back to the Wien syndicate for 114 years. Advantages for Prudential: a 7% return on invested capital and a way around a New York law that limits Prudential's investment...
...baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero's latest fructifications. For the first half-hour the dream world has its humors, but it soon gets to be as dull as any other adolescent fantasy. Still, the script offers some wickedly keen lines. "Now let's talk about you," says a busy industrialist, figuring to give the little woman's morale a lift. "Were the shrubs delivered...