Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This new collection of short stories may bring a few more readers to appreciate her peculiar talent. She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what she is trying to show...
Foolproof Formula. The speech was one of Churchill's best: a masterly mixture of lofty patriotism and adroit politics. Well brushed, well tailored old metaphors ("We held aloft the flaming torch of free dom when all around the night was black as jet") clothed his sturdy Tory form ("We have endured patiently, almost silently, many provocations from that happily limited class of left-wing politicians to whom party strife is the breath of their nostrils"). By the time he reached his glowing peroration, 43 minutes later, the Tory leader had shown how he proposed to win the general election...
...Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, diplomatically adroit Canadian Ambassador...
...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...
...Wallace had been fought in such extreme black & white terms that it was possible for his journalistic detractors to picture him as fit for the loony bin, while his journalistic defenders called him the political hope of the common man (see cuts). In the end, the compromise was so adroit that both sides could, and did, claim a victory. The Wallace opponents had blocked his way into the biggest lending agency on earth. But Henry Wallace, who, at 56, is a rising politician, had won the hope of an effective sounding board within the Government...