Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he first met Turner. He hurried home and wrote in his diary: "Introduced today to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge . . . I found in him a somewhat eccentric, keen-mannered, matter-of-fact, English-minded gentleman...
...rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge is as keen as the rivalry between Ford and Chevrolet-and a good deal older. Last week George Trevelyan, Master of Trinity College and High Steward of the Borough of Cambridge, announced that he was petitioning the Crown to change Cambridge's status from town to city. Cried one Oxonian on hearing the news: "Good gracious! In their efforts for equality, Cambridge will be wanting a bishop next." Oxford has been both bishopric and city for more than four centuries...
...walk" and "walk now" from the warm comfort of the Harvard Square shack will appreciate your good intentions. Unless some hungry lad from Adams House wanders by you will get both a free park and your nickels back. Of course, the necessity of prior investment takes the keen edge off this tactic...
...Keen as he is, Scholar Cammann almost throws away one of the biggest facts in his book. He reveals, but only in passing, that most of the Mongols he talked to had never heard of America. They were astonished when they were shown America on the map. They had taken for granted that all strangers of European stock come from "West Russia...
...final contribution to the success of this production is the general excellence of the supporting cast. Malcolm Keen as Capulet is as ingratiating a character actor as I have seen, and Evelyn Carden as the nurse is quite funny, except in the early parts of the play when she is not distinct...