Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
...protagonist comes to, first of all, is the noisy antiseptic indignity of life in a hospital ward. Patients are frenzied or conniving; doctors hearty and indifferent. Drifting in and out of fantasies, he plods a painful path from demi-death to limited life. Welch's perceptions are keen, and his imagery probes reality like a scalpel. A nurse's face "gained an unreal nutcracker severity from the curve and compression of her nose and lips. It was as if a heavy weight on her head had crumpled the features underneath." Railroad tracks, "like never-ending stilettos, seemed...
...wife Lisette, he lives in a 22-room Georgian house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., golfs (badly), shoots clay pigeons (much better), occasionally plays high-stakes poker (superbly). Though little in his background prepared him for the airline business, Tillinghast holds: "Special knowledge is a lot less important than a keen mind." That...
Praise for Heyns's first-year performance comes from regents, faculty and students alike. Regent Norton Simon (TIME cover, June 4, 1965) says that Heyns has "achieved excellent balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions." Cal President Clark Kerr cites his "keen intelligence, great good sense, and calm but effective style." Former Student President Jerry Goldstein calls him "an absolutely fantastic individual, with warmth and humor...
...Keen Vision. "At the end of September 1944," he begins, "I was arrested again and sent to the Gestapo prison at Brauweiler. I was kept in solitary confinement and liked it." Adenauer had been in and out of Nazi prisons since 1933, when Hitler booted him from the lord-mayoralty of Cologne. At war's end, he was a tough, uncompromising democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked...