Word: keening
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...author in our current Battle of the Conductors. Besides being, with the exception of Walter's book on Mahler, the sole piece of intelligent prose published by a major American conductor on musical history or theory for the last ten years, it reveals Boston's Bayard as a keen historical analyst with broad-based Van-Wyck-Brooksian sympathies. This may seem like the introduction of strange standards, as if I were to attribute Joe Louis's technique to a knowledge of boxing history, and, in the case of a composer, it would be. A composer, after mastering the fundamentals, should...
Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Lord Louis, who has had four ships shot out from under him in naval action, was recently made head of the Combined Operations Department, now reports only to the Prime Minister...
...spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General Sir Alan Francis...
...setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them to purely verbal combat, Lessing has them end up in one another's arms. The noble-minded Nathan rids the hot-tempered Crusader of his intolerance, the keen-witted Saladin of his doubts...
...Author Kronenberger had made freer use of such anecdotes, his reconstruction of 18th-Century England would be as lively as it is critically keen, sensitive, discerning and humane. But he has other purposes, which he makes clear by reviewing his own book succinctly in a prefatory note. "The chief aim of this book he says, "is to provide a picture of 18th-Century England until the time of the French Revolution. The whole thing lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox history-book, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars...