Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mwanza: "Zambia is knocking at your door. We hope that you will keep this door wide open. I can say that only the pressure of extra work caused by our fight against racialists all around Zambia has made it impossible for us to indicate publicly that Zambia is keen to join hands in at least one or two sections of the Treaty, although, as I have already said, she is very keen to become a full member...
Drama is far less emergent in Africa than the new nations themselves. The special gift of Nigeria's Wole Soyinka,* the continent's foremost black playwright, is to speak to Africans about Africa in the concrete context of today but with a keen residual sense of the past. He is emancipated without being alienated. Blending mock humor with flare-lit passion, he is both a satirist and a mythopoet...
...recovery showed that Suliotis has the temperament of a true diva. She has the vocal equipment too-power, range, a rich, natural voice and a keen instinct for drama-but at this stage of her career it is marred by an occasional lack of control, exaggerated effects and some forcing at both extremes of her range. Also, she may be gambling with her voice's future by singing taxing roles at such an early age. Still, such all-or-nothing assaults on the heights are in the spirit of Callas' own career, and the older soprano may have...
Most of the men and women in the advertising profession are highly reputable people with a keen sense of responsibility to both their clients and the public. There are the other kind...
...less intellectual plane, the historian proves himself an unexpectedly useful guide. A keen appreciator of fine sherry, Toynbee tasted the wines of Mendoza in Argentina and found them to his liking: "So far as I have sampled them, every variety is good . . . They deserve to be drunk all over the world...