Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DePinto is known for a keen eye and the sense of humor of a determined pixie. Dunster men remember her appearing before them in the dinner line and solemnly slipping some silverware into their hands for the dates they had for gotten to provide for. On one occasion she overheard some House residents complain about the difficulties of watching the pretty girls in the line on weekend nights and returned to present them with a mirror...
Backyard Beginnings. The birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that...
...Well, only nine out of 37 seen each copy that you've send recently. All the uneducated people keen to see such magazines pictures and cut them hanging and fixed to walls and roofings [rafters] of their Tongan houses. But they first keen to know and understand from any reader what's that picture for? Who are these men on the cover of every TIME? Good or Bad, Brave or wealthy, Communist or else...
...draw the cover, we called on Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who is not much of a racing fan but has a keen eye for political horseflesh. Although this is his first magazine cover, his witty vignettes have often appeared in TIME'S pages. At 42, one of the country's top editorial cartoonists, Conrad has his home base at the Los Angeles Times, but 150 other newspapers use his work, which illustrates Aldous Huxley's observation that caricature is the "most penetrating" of criticism...
...responsible for the entire concert was music-major Jan Johnson, '68. Conductor, page-turner and general impresario, Johnson showed a keen appreciation of Ives and did an admirable job of bringing his music to life. A "hats off, gentlemen" from Eusebius was certainly in order...