Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official German reiteration of its devotion to Western policy, the fact is that in West Germany, nobody is keen to join the new German army. Business wants no new defense industry to dislocate the country's roaring prosperity. Hardfisted Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer has decided that a mere 5.5% of the gross national product is a sufficient contribution for defense costs, and last week refused again to kick in the $760 million that Bonn has hitherto paid for support of the Allied troops who constitute the country's only defense...
...party for her sister Ruth at the Eugene Meyer mansion on Washington's Crescent Place. There Graham met Kay, a $25-a-week editorial assistant on her father's paper. A University of Chicago graduate (and ex-student of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), she was as keen a New Deal supporter as Graham himself. After two more encounters and a single date, they became engaged. They were married in June...
Cocktail Houri. Bobbing and weaving about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross...
...course of the show he spoofs English madrigals and Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, with a small comment on Bach chorals thrown in between. His talent, however, is no less evident in some warm long songs and the music for the large production numbers. For these ballet scenes, Liz Keen contributes some amazingly expert choreography...
...graduate dormitory--The Graduate House. Once a hotel, and still equipped with the long corridors and slatted doors of its former grandeur, the monstrous brick building offers its residents Claverly-sized rooms, a magnificent view of the river front, and an esprit de corps. Dances, intramural sports, and a keen sense of belonging flourish in the Grad House...