Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press. "In the West," says Albert Boiter of Radio Liberty, "the press is the pacesetter. But the Soviet press stands not in front but behind the masses, following popular trends and undercurrents gingerly and grudgingly. Whatever liberal innovations have been introduced lately are not the work of audacious editors, keen reporters and erudite commentators. They have been made because of the demands of the readership, which is slowly and rather unwillingly being followed by the press...
Nowhere is the competition as keen as in New York City, which boasts more (111), and more diverse, private schools than any other city in the country. The rigidly classical Lycée Francais has a curriculum similar to the one used in French schools, while the offbeat Rudolf Steiner School is based on anthroposophical principles. Progressive Dalton gives no marks, teaches anthropology and playwriting to upperclassmen, while prim, socially prominent Hewitt rules that students cannot attend "parties, moving pictures or the theater" on school nights...
...government of Premier Georges Bidault, and also to win full independence for his Viet Minh regime. All charm and chatter, Ho reigned in style at the Royal Hotel near the Etoile. "He would always embrace us affectionately," recalls one participant in the negotiations. "But Bidault wasn't too keen on such gestures, presumably because of Ho's goatee." After two months of hirsute haggling, Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised only to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted...
Noise Level. Bundy's keen appreciation of the legitimate uses of power was nurtured in an extraordinary family that has long been accustomed to authority. His mother, now 74, traces her lineage practically to Plymouth Rock, is a niece of longtime Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Poetess Amy Lowell. His father, Harvey Hollister Bundy, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., but managed to overcome that handicap and break into Boston's upper stratum by means of a brilliant marriage and an equally brilliant law career...
...French press. In spite of a rising population, the number of papers in France has declined from 230 in 1938 to 82 today. While there are no brand-name commercials on the Government-controlled television, magazines absorb 60% of the nation's advertising. And even in politically keen France, the new generation is snowing little interest in political news; they find far more excitement on the highways or the beaches than in reading another De Gaulle speech...