Word: adroit
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...have been adroit. Over the Easter weekend, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviet Union and the U.S. immediately stop deployment of intermediate- range nuclear weapons in Europe. The ploy was too transparent to work. The Soviets had essentially completed their missile buildup, and the U.S. was in the midst of countervailing emplacements; a freeze would have left the U.S.S.R. with a huge lead in warheads. Even the Dutch government, which earlier had waffled on accepting American missiles, turned down the idea...
...shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example: the slick 56- page pamphlet "Star Wars: Delusions and Dangers" that appeared last month throughout Washington and European capitals, translated into English, French, Spanish and German. Western correspondents are now invited to question urbane Soviet spokesmen at on-the-record press conferences. At a briefing at the Soviet...
...latest Soviet gambit came with surprising swiftness and adroit timing. It was aimed squarely at public opinion in Western Europe, where the SDI is perceived by some to reduce the chances for arms reductions, just as a battered Reagan was scheduled to arrive there. While not rebuffing Gorbachev's offer outright, the State Department expressed cautious doubts that the proposal went far beyond previous Soviet formulations that the U.S. had found unacceptable. For his part, Reagan at week's end pronounced himself still "very willing" to meet with Gorbachev if, as expected, the Soviet leader attends the opening...
...most famous and certainly the two most adroit writers of the sixties' movement, Eldridge Cleaver and James Baldwin, have aged in remarkably different ways. Cleaver, a former Black Panther, is now a strict conservative who bitterly renounces any kind of struggle against the establishment. Baldwin, however, continues to support the spirit of the civil rights movement from his self-improved exile in France Whereas Baldwin was attacked by some, most notably Cleaver, for his emphasis on education over activism during the 1960s, now it is Cleaver whose commitment to black equality appears tepid. And while their relative militancy has been...
...many parrot references, along with the fact that there are no parrots in Madame Bovary. A chapter contains contrasting chronologies, one of the author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...