Word: adroit
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...show, of course, is slick, exciting, professional in every detail-trust coony old Kazan for that every time. Actress Wood is quietly adroit and appealing. And Actor Beatty, who at 24 is playing his first screen part of any account, should make the big time on the first bounce. In the matter of talent, Sister Shirley MacLaine can give him cards and spades, but he has a startling resemblance to the late James Dean, and he has that certain something Hollywood calls star quality...
Nothing Hostile. In his performance at the U.N. General Assembly, Frondizi was no less adroit, carefully tuning his remarks to his audience. He quickly identified himself with the world's underdeveloped nations ("No backward country is fully independent"); he showed proper concern about Castro's Cuba by calling for "representative democracy in the entire American continent," then softened the sting by again insisting on absolute nonintervention.* As for the cold war, said Frondizi, "when we proclaim the fact that we are members of the Western and Christian world, we are not doing so in order to create antagonistic...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...pleased grin creasing his tanned Gaucho's face. Joào ("Jango") Goulart stood before a joint session of Brazil's Congress one evening last week to be inaugurated as President of Brazil. By compromise and adroit political maneuvering, the man considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well...
...Dramatics. Che's adroit politicking provided the drama of the conference, but as the U.S. Treasury's Dillon clearly saw, the real business was not dramatics, and the real success was not yet to be measured. The present task was merely to get under way. The U.S. objective at Punta del Este was to offer Latin America, tormented by its hunger for food, learning, health and work, a working alternative to Castro's "socialism," and it hoped to encourage Latin Americans themselves to prove that democracy can provide swift enough economic and political progress...