Word: acumen
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...impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor) in 1940, Mary Tudor is an enlarged, revised version of a first-rate work of scholarship...
Misalliance, a bright union of acid dialogue and fanciful plot, serves as a scrap-book for assorted bits of Shavian philosophy. Skimming over anything profound, the play is an agreeable jumble of Shaw's acumen and nonsense. By exaggerating speech and gestures, the Broadway version has heightened the whimsey and strengthened the plot...
...face and mild Edwardian lisp, Salisbury at first meeting may look like a slightly astringent edition of a P. G. Wodehouse hero. But behind the prim manner and pained eyebrows lurks a will as strong as Churchill's. Salisbury, says one of his admirers, has the same political acumen as Laborite Herbert Morrison, but with this difference: the marquess has been at the game 450 years longer...
...were unpopular and personally he has always been shy and somewhat aloof. Nevertheless, by constantly encouraging the Faculty to participate in decisions-unheard of in Lowell's day-by heavy work and sheer competence, and by a warmth which could not long go undetected, he beat this hostility. Political acumen and cool craft have by necessity remained, but combined with tolerance, with sympathy and generosity-in short, with what one professor splay called "manners of the soul...
...protect showings. We have had one theft and a schedule dispute in the last three months. Since we may expect film showings to continue to be big business, we may expect more irresponsible behavior. While dishonesty and cut-throat competition make news for the CRIMSON, they are hardly business acumen. Honest and ordered conduct of film showings is of vital concern to the College as well as the organizations involved. We can have more and healthier competition within enforceable rules than operating under unenforceable deals...