Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney's memory for history may have lapsed, but his sense of political timing was unusually keen. His drive for the G.O.P. presidential nomination had received little attention during the summer until the Detroit riots and his differences with the President put him back in the headlines. Last week's off-the-cuff remarks landed on television screens and front pages across the nation. He followed up with a speech urging U.S. flexibility toward China, in the hope that Peking will reach the point where it will "deserve and desire" United Nations membership...
Pritchett, who has written about Spain, Latin America and the U.S., relishes foreign lands, is at ease on many social levels, and has a keen ear for class. Though no Irishman will be found to admit it, all this qualifies Pritchett to be the best historian of Dublin since James Joyce-who was, of course, a Dubliner, though he scraped its mud off his boots at 22 and returned but twice in the rest of his life...
...Calkins spoke to the young both from the pulpit and the podium. He was impressive not for any evangelistic fervor, but for his high cultivation, his keen tongue, and the obvious personal interest he took in everyone he knew. Those he addressed as youths carried with the mas men, his spiritual and deeply learned insights...
Theology & Public Relations. Continuing the pattern of recent years, graduates were keen on aerospace, electronics, chemical, oil and other hightechnology, high-growth companies. The oft-discussed student distaste for business, on the other hand, focused mainly on sales jobs. As a result, offers from food and beverage companies, merchandisers and insurance firms, got short shrift...
...larger roles, Kathryn Walker plays the prostitute Sonya, who will redeem Raskolnikov, with a willowy tenderness and strength. Joel M. Kramer portrays a Ustinovian police magistrate with an ominous keen-mindedness...