Word: acumen
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WHEN the Great Proletarian Revolution burst over Communist China, Peking recalled all but one of its 42 ambassadors. The lone exception was Huang Hua, then Peking's man in Cairo. His dedication to Communism and his diplomatic acumen in directing China's relations with all of Africa and the Middle East had obviously earned the confidence and respect of China's leaders, even in a period when they were not inclined to trust many people...
...need to root a danse macabre in thematic and dramatic progressions. Like the early Renoir, he is very much an actor's director, using his characters' figures and reactions to make comic points, deftly tracking and cutting to capture them. Arkin succeeds in bringing visual depth and storytelling acumen to Jules Feiffer's screenplay. If only Arkin had directed Catch...
Died. Samuel Hay Kauffmann, 72, president of Washington's Evening Star Newspaper Co. from 1949 to 1963; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Kauffmann's business acumen helped make the Star a continuing financial success, though it has never challenged the editorial eminence of the Washington Post...
...freedom" riots of Poznan that carried Gomulka to power in 1956; he was heralded then as the man who could hold the country together. In his own cautiously individualistic way, Gomulka did just that. His 14 years in office are proof that he has retained the wily political acumen that led Poles to describe him as "The Maestro." No wonder that so many thoughtful Eastern Europeans have said: "To understand Poland, understand Gomulka...
...fund-raised, Panofsky showed considerable acumen in obtaining appropriations for the linear accelerator, a task which one Stanford colleague described as requiring "an infinite amount of politics...