Word: keens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard much of Bork's brilliance and intellect. There are many other minds roaming America's legal community at least equally as keen. Yet Robert Bork was the darling of the Reagan Administration, one of the first lawyers it put on the prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals and one of the first names on its short list of potential Supreme Court nominees...
...novelty in the British Houses of Parliament, where the lobbies echo with the sound of eager young Americans panting for the fray. Far from being the club-like sanctum it popularly is supposed to be, the British Parliament rapidly is becoming a summer camp for hordes of keen foreigners...
This enthusiasm proves an absolute godsend to back bench Members of Parliament who receive but meager salaries on which they usually manage to mantain one devoted and underpaid secretary. To such MPs crowds of keen and reasonably intelligent free research assistants are manna from heaven. With the aid of one to three such assistants the beleagured MP may now indulge in as much work as he feels suitable or necessary...
...Dunster-penned work was a short piece titled "A Few Minutes to A," by a recent graduate of the house, Justin Davidson, who also happens to have been Feurzieg's roommate last year. Davidson's writing is marked by a great sense of control and an ability to express keen changes of mood without wasting a note...
Judith E. Stein, curator of the Grooms show that started its national tour two years ago at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, sets him up as a real satirist. With a "keen political sense," she claims in her catalog introduction, "Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honore Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case...