Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue. The trouble goes deeper than the quality of color. The black-and-white programs that make up the vast bulk of TV fare (80% on color-conscious NBC) often seem wan and whiskery on color sets. Color reception takes such keen tuning that many a would-be customer loses heart while the salesman fumbles. Moreover, color reception must be live to be good. In the West, where night network shows are often Kinescoped to meet the time differential, viewers complain that all the hues come out blue...
...unfortunately have proven themselves most unwilling to follow. Stevenson, by contrast, has shown an amazing ability to get his highly diversified party behind him. He skillfully overcame a potential party split in his Chicago civil rights manoeuverings, and while we would have preferred a stronger stand, he showed a keen sense of the political realities by taking the issue, in effect, out of the platform altogether. He has, by contrast, shown during the campaign, that he is willing to press for things in which he firmly believes, over the opposition even of his own advisers. His civil rights statement...
...side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with his centralizing policy. The British were delighted. Having decided on the big gamble of granting the Gold Coast independence within the Commonwealth, they were keen to get things moving quickly at a time when others were damning them as colonial-minded over Suez...
Projects in Hand. His missions downtown accomplished, J.D.R. Jr. was driven seven miles back along state Route 3 in his Cadillac limousine to The Eyrie, his gabled, secluded 50-room summer home on a wooded granite ridge 500 yds. back from the slate-grey Atlantic. From the car, his keen eyes swept a faraway view-wild mountains and neat harbors and white-sailed yachts sparkling-then dwelt more closely upon the prim lanes and green lawns that please his sense of economy and precision...
Fleischman's serious collecting began after service overseas in World War II as a combat infantryman. On the advice of his wife, a keen art student, he shifted his buying to American works, and now Fleischman has a handsome collection of Winslow Homer and John Marin watercolors. "What started out to be a hobby has become a disease," he admits...