Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bespectacled screech owl. Eisenhower was a pair of ears pierced by a disingenuous grin, and Kennedy-well, some semblance of Kennedy could always be drawn under that hummock of hair. To such lean and telling presidential portraiture, editorial cartoonists for the nation's newspapers bring a keen eye, a sharp pen and a drop or two of acid ink. Now they are honing their art on a new subject whose face might have been designed for their drawing boards. But how successfully have they captured Lyndon B. Johnson...
...real behind-the-scenes story of those magazine glamour photographers and their buxomly beautiful models!" So read the notice under the marquee of the State Theatre on Washington Street. With our keen interest in photography, we hesitated, wondering whether to skip the merely entertaining Captain Newman for an educational look at Russ Meyer's (The Immoral Mr. Teas) latest masterpiece, Heavenly Bodies. When we noticed this was the film's first Boston showing and couldn't recall any criticism in the professional press, we decided that, as a service to the community, we had no choice but to duck...
...eighty-second year when he died; yet we could have better spared a younger man. For, though he had physically slowed somewhat in recent years, his mind was as keen and probing as ever, and his old-fashioned dipped pen (he loathed the typewriter) just as active and skilled. In his last months, he was revising the manuscript of the last novel of All Souls, an eight-volume roman-fleuve to rank with Proust's and Rolland...
...contemporary account written by a poetess and neighbor, Miss Anna Seward, sometimes known as "the Swan of Lichfield." Anna carried on a lifelong flirtation with him (they exchanged playful love letters on behalf of their cats), and remembered him as a man given to "sarcasm of very keen edge" and so "inclined to corpulence" that he had to have a semicircular hole cut in the table to accommodate him at meals. "A fool," the doctor used to say to Anna, "is a man who never tried an experiment." Erasmus tried them all the time, and occasionally they worked. He prescribed...
...consumption of sunflower seeds there are several schools of thought. Biologists, I regret to say, dissect them. "Commonly referred to as a seed," intones the laboratory instructor, "the fruit is an achene (uh-KEEN). Make a longitudinal section, and note the massive embryo, the large, fleshy cotyledons. Is any endosperm present?" And without looking to see, he slips one into his mouth...