Word: keenness
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Despite the bitter, often personal, disputes that have occasionally plagued Perspective, Cohen has managed to remain popular among the staff of the monthly. Perspective editors praise Cohen's ability to Keep disagreements on a professional level and talk about his approachability. "Adam has always been keen on not becoming isolated," says Chrystia A. Freeland '90-'91, a senior editor on the journal...
...there's Jody Watley, 30, godchild of soul great Jackie Wilson. With six Top Ten singles from her first two records, she is hard at work not only on a new album (due out by year's end) but also on keeping the lines drawn and the competitive edge keen. "Janet and Paula are more similar to each other than I am," she says. "They both are much more accomplished dancers than I am. They are more commercially successful than I am. I'm innovative, sort of the renegade of the bunch. I have shorter hair. I have a tattoo...
...Thomas Bodley, the founder, placed it in 1605. "It gave me a sense of how high I loomed in the large scale of scholarship, and that's good for a young graduate student." He became a protege of Dame Helen Gardner, the eminent Donne scholar, who also had a keen sense of scale. "The point of wide reading is absorption, not citation," was her comment on one showy Healy effort. "I've used that line many times since," he says, "and I can't say I've always attributed...
...politician. He was trained as an engineer and a debater, and it shows. The engineer in him enormously enjoys the substantive questions of governance: What kind of pollution control is cost-effective? Which jet fighter technologies should we share with Japan? To such questions, Sununu brings voracious curiosity, a keen analytical gift and near total recall. Budget Director Richard Darman, Sununu's only intellectual peer in the Bush inner circle, points out that "Sununu is trained in fluid dynamics and has a good sense of the dynamics of a problem," unlike lesser minds, who "see the world in static terms...
...writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was also included in many of these attacks. The vital truths expressed in his extraordinary literary works and keen polemics had made him the object of virulent party and KGB hatred for several years; now there were claims that I alone, or the two of us, were engaged in a slanderous assault on Soviet society and its guarantees of work, free medical care and an unrivaled educational system. The main charge was that we were enemies of detente, working against peace...