Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony No. 1, by Philadelphia-born Pianist Leo Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
...need for a new code has been long felt in the industry and most directors have become quite adroit at suggesting rather than stating the obvious, or implying one thing and saying another. The movie-version of Tea and Sympathy for instance, turned a lad suspected of homosexuality into an introvert who didn't like sports. But the theme of The Man With the Golden Arm could not be twisted enough to fit inside the limits of the Old Code. As one wit put it, "You just can't make a dope addict into an off-beat character." The film...
...usual way-with a sudden splurge of innuendos and charges of dark intrigues and double-dealing. Magsaysay's chief rival is Senator Claro Recto, a member of his own party and one of the men who first induced Magsaysay to run for President in 1952. An adroit lawyer but a disappointed politician, Recto accused Magsaysay of signing a secret document in 1952 promising to serve only one term if elected President...
...role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...
...stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...