Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationalist leaders last year organized a boycott of Ismaili shops, and the Aga Khan is now advising his followers to shift into other lines-"small industry, the professions, the civil service." In every country, the Aga Khan interviews key Cabinet ministers to find out what industries the government is keen on developing, and sets up a local
...performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when the glance counts for more than its object or the inflection means more than the actual word, they occasionally lack a final polish. Still and all, they are frequently hilarious...
Kentucky. In a dark and bloody ground of national political contention, Kentuckians are paying much more attention to the presidential race than to their own drab Senate campaign between Incumbent John Sherman Cooper and former Governor Keen Johnson. Able Republican Cooper, onetime U.S. Ambassador to India, is probably more liberal than his challenger. Johnson, a prominent businessman (vice president of Reynolds Metals), is locally famed for his frugality: as Governor (1939-43), he ran a tight treasury, spent less than the legislature allotted, liquidated the state debt and ran up a surplus of $10 million. Cooper is ahead...
Kennedy in contrast, for all his magic with crowds and his keen-minded calculations during his run for the nomination, showed himself something of a bumbling battler during the post-convention session. If he had stayed in the background, letting Johnson maestro the show, the results in legislation might have been the same, but Kennedy would not have been politically hurt. As it was, he damaged his image as an efficient and forceful leader by needlessly exposing himself to public defeats, tying his own prestige to getting a doomed package of welfare legislation enacted...
...first political audience at the age of six as the son of Nebraska's Republican attorney general. First in his class at the University of Nebraska law school, he worked for the Federal Security Agency in Washington, joined the staff of freshman Senator Kennedy in 1953. They found keen enjoyment in a common intellectual approach to politics, collaborated on Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Together, they traveled through every state from 1956 to 1960, compiled a detailed, 30,000-name list of top Democrats. Frayed by a 72-hour week as speechwriter, key advance man and political seismograph...