Word: adroit
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...ensemble's cool jazz style is less weird, but technically just as adroit. With his left leg swinging, Pianist Eaton may toy with harmonies and tempi, bounce themes to the fluid clarinet, trade solos with the limpid trumpet. Underneath it all is a rock-solid bass. Last week the boys wound up with Long Ago and Far Away and a driving Summertime. The palazzo shivered, and the audience applauded. "An intellectual Newport," said a delighted U.S. composer as he made his way from the hall...
...Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to let the Organization of American States send in a team of investigators to see how well he was behaving...
...begins a fresh, charming, witty piece of intellectual slapstick, a two-reel silent spoof of modern painting that is just as funny as Day of the Painter (TIME, Sept. 12) but much more subtle in comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...
Jerome Bert Wiesner, 45, Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Articulate, pipe-smoking Jerry Wiesner has tramped through North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory...
...does not add that Heracles was the Queen's lover and that the two of them deceived the lustful Pan by dressing Heracles in one of Omphale's gowns and decoying the god into a darkened grotto. Such goatly matters as remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married for a drunken joke at a harvest festival." For young classicists who outgrow such simplicity, the author forehandedly has prepared...