Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calkins' keen sense of what it necessary at the moment dictated much of his own activity last month. Like President Pusey, he thought that the University was threatened. Unlike, Pusey, he knew what to do about it. The Corporation...
...Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...
...Keen Dryden, star goalie for Cornell University, made his first appearance in the World Amateur Hockey Tournament in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, leading Canada to a 1-0 shutout victory over the winless United states squad. The setback was the Americans' seventh...
...duce a single pleasing harmony. Ever since she began singing under his demanding baton, Miss Nilsson's relation ship with the Salzburg-born maestro has become increasingly sour. Among other things, she has been irked by his insistence on unusually time-consuming rehearsals and is not too keen about his dark, brooding lighting effects, which often keep the singers in the shadows. "I could walk out for coffee sometimes," Miss Nilsson once complained to Rudo. lf Bing, general manager of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, "and no one would know the difference...
...corruption. Italian industry thinks only of the expansion of consumption. And it is not with culture, but with money, that one buys." Many of the critics, particularly the protesting student extremists, take their prosperity for granted and never knew the general privation of times past. Gianni Agnelli has a keen understanding of the social dissent. "The people of the older generation compare the life that they had with the life of the young today and see how much better off they are," says he. "From that grows the gap in understanding. But the young are saying that we could have...