Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grounds for Pride. The truth appears to be that Johnson, however adept at the arts of suasion and compromise, is ill at ease with persistent, complex issues that are not susceptible to activist solutions. Yet the President has good reason to be gratified. The burst of inflation that dismayed economists early this year, seems to have receded. Indeed, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor predicted last week that "unless there is a drastic change, there will be no new tax in this session of Congress" (though that qualified forecast was later hedged even more by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler...
...policy above the level of collected and iron-clad prejudices, the building seems to me like a facility, a thing to be used by anyone with the ingenuity or brains or persuasion to get control. That is not really a free theatre at all, since talented people not adept at polities are going...
...sensual electricity, in every gesture and blazing eyes that can mesmerize a mob, Thich Tri Quang, 42, has long been South Viet Nam's mysterious High Priest of Disorder. (Thich, pronounced tick, is a title meaning "venerable"; Tri Quang is pronounced tree kwong.) Wily and ruthless, Delphic and adept, he is the best of breed of a new kind of back room bonze. In the murky world of Oriental mysticism and Saigon's immemorial intrigue, these robed and shaven men have emerged as the new Machiavellis of the Vietnamese political scene. Tri Quang is unquestionably their prince...
...Among those played are the mbira, timbila, kalimba, guitar-lute, Lozi drums, tampura drone, bamboo pipe, Japanese koto zither, and double respiratory linguaphone. These vary in appearance from hollowed-out Halloween pumpkins to xylophones seemingly made of baby elephant tusks. The chief players, Andrew and Paul Tracey, are equally adept with bagpipes, clarinets, flutes and tubas. Of the three fetching girls, Dana Valery has a voice of expressive authority and distinctive beauty. She has the show's tenderest numbers, folk ballads that ripple as hauntingly across the stage as moonlight on still water...
...Carpenter Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...