Word: adroit
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...first crisis of his 16-month reign. A royal crisis it was. Papandreou, known as "the Old Fox," had held power since November 1963, with his massive Center Union Coalition, which controls 168 seats out of 300 in Parliament. His rule was based on a series of adroit backstage deals with rightists and leftists-especially the leftists, whose influence has worried a nation that still vividly recalls the bitter 1946-49 civil war with the Communists. The young King fired Papandreou because he believed the Premier was intriguing to neutralize even the passionately royalist Greek army. Nonetheless, his action brought...
...against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social and ultimately democratic reforms. Even that old tribal chief Jomo Kenyatta has so far proved an adroit democrat; though he maneuvered the opposition out of business, all elements of Kenya are represented in his one-party government...
Tiny Alice, by Edward Albee, is a delaying action of adroit theatricality designed to conceal a clutter of confused thought. Albee preaches "resign yourself to the mysteries," but in this quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama he practices only mystification. He brings the playgoer through the Nietzschean revelation that "God is dead" to the Sartrean discovery of the absurdity of existence. Albee adds that man creates God in his own image, a profundity he presumably shares with many sophomores, past and present. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool)? rang with the brassy gong of reality; Tiny Alice is a tinny allegory...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heartwarming and heartbreaking...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musical entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her amazingly adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heart-warming and heartbreaking...