Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this residual national memory. The church may have only 3,000,000 attentive faithful, but, as one observer points out, "they are active in church because they want to be." Many of these laymen want a more decisive role in the government of the church, and take a keen interest in stewardship; private donations to the church have risen 50% in the past decade. Seminary enrollment is currently running ahead of clerical retirements and deaths, and many Anglicans believe that the caliber of new priests is higher too. In part this may be due to the incentive provided...
...process, it also acquired a new chairman: Sir William Black, 70, whose Associated Commercial Vehicles was taken over by Leyland last year. Sir William (he was knighted in 1958) intends to retain the individuality of the companies within Leyland and to encourage intramural competition for sales. He also is keen on preserving the down-to-earth atmosphere that pervades Leyland's huge Lancashire plants. Says he: "Most of the executives started as apprentices on the shop floor, and we like to think that we could still do some of the jobs...
...witty speech that showed both political courage and keen perception, Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas clearly exposed the emptiness of the New Conservatism preached by Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Extending to its illogical extreme Goldwater's argument for a "bold" and "courageous" foreign policy that excluded peaceful co-existence, Fulbright concluded that Goldwater must really be advocating a "'determined' policy of 'co-annihilation.'" He also observed an interesting parallelism between the views of the Arizona Junior Senator and the Chinese Communists on nuclear war, the test ban treaty, and other similar topics...
...merely events in the cold war; they are also events in the long, distinguished career of Averell Harriman, at 71 an old man on the New Frontier. He is a figure of another generation, yet very much on top of present events; hard of hearing, yet noticeably keen in his political perception; a rambling speaker (his dictation, says his secretary, is "impressionistic"), yet hard and precise of thought. In the period of change that is bound to follow the test ban treaty, Harriman's thinking is more pertinent than ever...
...unlike son. Patriarch I. W. Schlesinger had built his $84 million real estate and cinema-chain empire on thrift, hustle and an eye for the shape of things to come. At 26, Son John was a Harvard-educated playboy with plenty of hustle in a speedboat race and a keen eye for judging beauty queens. But John Schlesinger, after 14 years of stewardship, has fooled everyone. He has not only preserved his father's empire, but has also given it a new and imaginative direction. In the process, he has become Africa's biggest single land developer...