Word: keening
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...natural (as opposed to the political) revolutionary. He is the man in love with life, the Nietzschean yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing. Author Sillitoe has recognized and unforgettably defined a type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom...
...yard freestyle event is traditionally the most interesting, and this year competition promises to be exceptionally keen. Any of half a dozen swimmers, including Hunter, could conceivably break the 48.2-second record set by Jeff Farrell last year...
...have long urged the U.S. to be as ready to deplore rightist dictatorships as leftist ones. Kennedy last week hoped impartially that the victims of Castro and Trujillo, "the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, will soon rejoin the society of free men." ¶ Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part of the Latin...
...saber-toothed tiger.' I said. We'd been expecting to get one. So we started a small dig, and the first thing we got was a human tooth. That's the way things are found in archaeology-a combination of keen observation and luck...
William Masselos contrib performance that masters the continual rhythmic and that has a keen sense f land's phrases and dynam his hands the work become vibrant, then poetic, and insight like his its britt be lost...