Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, and that will present a new problem of prosperity. Once the demands of Viet Nam are over, this surplus will be a "fiscal drag" that could lead the economy into recession, unless policymakers return the surplus to the people in the form of "fiscal dividends." Heller is less keen on tax cuts now; he has, in fact, been calling since early this year for strictly temporary and quickly reversible tax increases to frustrate inflation...
...image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone...
Coming Competition. In the years before Newsday, the Captain always showed a newsman's keen interest in a wide range of activities. He spent a few youthful years in South America learning the mining business, the source of the Guggenheim family's great wealth. Then he became fascinated with flying, served as a naval aviator in both World Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred...
This summer Washington made news -- perhaps -- when a crowd of young people threw sticks and rocks at a police station in the Anacostia section of Washington, while one or two boys with a keen sense of the dramatic shouted, "Let's go get the cocktails!" Local newspapers immediately christened the outburst a "riot," and the police did their best to make it one by sending for a pack of dogs with their handlers, white men from Brandywine, Maryland, on the ends of their leashes...