Word: keening
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...Nellie, Millie and Dollie Lawrence thought that young English ladies were too delicately nurtured; what they needed was a more robust schooling-the kind Eton gave to boys. On a breeze-bathed seacoast near Brighton, in 1885, the sisters built their new Roedean (rhymes with so keen) School...
...first U.S. poet of the century to succeed in growing up, say the Gregorys, was Edwin Arlington Robinson. The Gregorys suggest parallels between Robinson's keen-witted accomplishment and that of Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...
Last May Duggan, at 75 keen-eyed, white-bearded and talkative, began to look around for a successor. Last week, beaming Stephen Duggan announced that the man had been found...
...According to Iceman's Director Eddie Dowling, the actors, who at first were as shy as O'Neill, "warmed up to him after the first ten minutes; they knew he belongs in the theater." They "adored" him because his response was so keen, because he was so gentle and appreciative, and so quick to smile when anyone did something well. When he arrived late for a rehearsal, which rarely happened, they kept asking about him. Says Dowling: "They miss him when he's not there...
...Suddenly, admission to college has become recognized as a privilege involving keen competition. . . . For every one of you here there are several others outside the gate. They were close behind you in qualifications for college work. If you think of them as you should, you will be at peace with your conscience only if you make the best use of the special privilege you now enjoy and which was denied to them...