Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter...
...McCarthy has shown in The Oasis (1949) and The Groves of Academe (1952), she is adroit at parsing intentions and ideologies: "Unlike God, the liberal was limited by ubiety. Nevertheless, why pick on the Shah? If the truth were known ... Reza Pahlavi's enormities had been chosen for this group's attention not just because he had an attractive country with an agreeable winter climate but for a still less pardonable motive: his regime was an easy target. Every good soul was opposed to torture, but it suited the Western soul's book to be able...
...purists this approach is sheer heresy--they remember Wagner's demand that his works be called "music-dramas." But most scoff at that today, and take the music much more seriously than the drama. Sellars does the opposite, and compensates for the loss in musical clarity with wonderfully adroit stagecraft. Sometimes it descends to the level of slapstick pot-shots at Wagner's Nibelungs, Gibichungs, forest-birds and bears, but at least as often it sensibly comments on the eternal production problems of the Ring...
When U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young resigned after his secret approach to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the nation's black leaders erupted in hostility toward Jewish groups, which they blamed, somewhat unfairly, for the ouster of the highest black in Government. Last week President Carter named an adroit successor to Young: Donald F. McHenry, 42, a top deputy at the U.N. mission. Though close to Young and equally absorbed in African affairs, McHenry is a polished career diplomat who is as well known for prudence as Young is for impetuosity...
Sullivan's sang-froid was characteristic; he is known in diplomatic circles as a self-assured salesman of policy, cool under stress and adroit at coping with diplomatic delicacies. "I think he's got water for blood," says Eugene Lawson, a former State Department colleague who is now a director at Georgetown University's foreign service school. "He's a collected, shrewd guy who always seems to land on his feet...