Word: adroit
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Often praised as an adroit practitioner of the soft sell, Fund Raiser McCord, 64, prefers to think of himself as a man "fishing with a barbless hook." He says his technique "does not stem from any personal bias, but simply out of my unshakable belief in the philosophy of using civilized language for a civil purpose' According to McCord, college fund raisers should "act as though we were an extension of, and not simply a blunt instrument for, our alma mater...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...Orchestra, as Stravinsky worked toward the refinement of sound, he was substituting mere mechanical skill for invention and vitality. One of last week's new works - Eight Instrumental Miniatures - seemed to confirm that impression. Consisting of "recomposed" material from 1921. his Miniatures were charming, light, mellow and infinitely adroit, but they did little more than sound echoes of such early Stravinsky triumphs as The Soldier's Tale...
Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
...false prosperity that inevitably ended in bankruptcy, but the masses gave him their devotion and have accepted no leader since. After his downfall, Per&243;n's name was forbidden on the ballot. Four years ago, to get elected, Frondizi in his usual adroit way courted the support of the outlawed Per&243;nistas. In power, he tried to assimilate the Per&243;nistas into the normal political life of the nation in a way that made Argentina's military leaders nervous. This year Frondizi managed to convince the military that the Per&243;nistas would...