Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a political climate, the job of convincing or, if necessary, pushing the Congress into following the Administration has become one of the toughest and most sensitive in Washington. It requires keen understanding of the equations of politics. The President's man on Capitol Hill must know instinctively which Congressmen will respond to deference or flattery, which ones require threats or pressures from home, which ones will leap at the hint of presidential support in the next campaign. O'Brien possesses such understanding in good measure. And he is an expert in the political uses of power, patronage...
...baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero's latest fructifications. For the first half-hour the dream world has its humors, but it soon gets to be as dull as any other adolescent fantasy. Still, the script offers some wickedly keen lines. "Now let's talk about you," says a busy industrialist, figuring to give the little woman's morale a lift. "Were the shrubs delivered...
...world he terrorized. Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book is for the keen and sober youngster who is ready to put away childish things and become, like every man, a child of the time...
...British have such a dead-keen sense of humor that they will burst into laughter on hearing that Prince Philip likes to call his wife "Sausage." Perhaps desperate for relief, penny-wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like...
...Tense as a Comic. Negro Pianist Jackson's greatest strength is an orderly, disciplined mind and a keen sense of form. While many a jazz musician thinks only a few bars ahead while improvising, Jackson envisions a whole piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always...