Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kings once resorted to the uncomplicated companionship of their court jesters to lighten the burden of loneliness that often accompanies power. U.S. Presidents have generally managed less condescending personal friendships while in office. Both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had the easy company of George Allen, an adept poker player and raconteur. Dave Powers served as a sort of White House entertainer under John Kennedy, accompanying the President to ball games and cracking Boston Irish gags to relax...
...HAROLD J. LASKI: The expert, simply by reason of his immersion in a routine, tends to lack flexibility of mind once he approaches the margins of his special theme. He is incapable of rapid adaptation. No man is so adept at realizing difficulties within the field that he knows; but few are so incapable of meeting situations outside that field...
...Footballers. The U.S. candidates of 1968 seldom proved as adept, if only because the heckling for the most part was deliberately disruptive. Humphrey tried to ignore his tormentors, then to outtalk them, with uneven success. Nixon developed elaborate techniques to thwart hecklers. At indoor rallies, his aides often refused to admit unkempt students or others who looked like troublemakers. If shouting started, a soundman turned up the p.a. system to earsplitting level. Bevies of Nixon-aires, mostly off-duty airline stewardesses, did their best to drown out the dissidents with chants of "We want Nixon!" Republicans also hired beefy...
...dark dance hall -- too packed, obviously, for dancing -- the younger boys and girls are remarkably adept with each other. They must learn at high school to flit around casually and effortlessly...
...fall of 1962, an editorial associate put the manuscript of One Day in with a portfolio of others for the editor in chief of the literary magazine Novy Mir, the adept...