Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lunch, unpacking, a baseball doubleheader, and Humanities and Science tours attracted most. Some preferred the first of four symposiums and found a keen oratorical show. Cocktails then became '29's diet, absorption bubbling on into the night...
Attlee made it clear that he was not keen on the trip. It would add to Red China's prestige in countries like India and Burma, and besides, said Attlee, "I do not know what my wife will say. I'm too old to be flying about." Also going along: Party Secretary Phillips, Nye Bevan. "We were not informed or consulted," was the chilly Foreign Office reaction...
...terror; the government was weak, and the Reds held key posts in the government and police force. But, as Togliatti explained, the Allies would have crushed any such insurrection attempt. Whenever Togliatti talks about such matters today, he invariably recalls what happened in Greece in 1944.* Togliatti is not keen on adventures...
...working with him in the English department have a great respect for Bate which is not entirely academic. Says one of the English tutors, 'With his keen, very enthusiastic opinions on many authors and problems in the whole field of English, I am always surprised by his readiness to listen to the most absurd idea. Even when that idea is pressed in heated discussion, Bate will not lose his temper, as subjective as he may feel about the given subject...
Avoiding the Flesh pots. The question of which church to serve posed no problem. His lawyer father was a casual Episcopalian,- his mother a devout Presbyterian. Pit unhesitatingly chose the Presbyterian for his ministry. "I wasn't keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground...