Word: adroitness
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WITH ALL due respect to Professor Kennan's formidable distinction, his "Fresh Thoughts on South Africa" (The New York Times, 18 Dec., 1970), should more appropriately. have been entitled, "Stale Thoughts on South Africa." Professor Kennan spiritedly argues against the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force against the tyranny of South Africa-one hears, in the italicized words, echoes of Kennan's celebrated "X" article of 1947-as the only dialogue possible with the rulers of that country. Instead, he has now urged the need for anyone troubled by the tragedy of South Africa to "hold the white rulers...
Last week another and more prosaic lie proved the undoing of Norway's chunky, affable and usually adroit Prime Minister Per Borten...
...under his authority, we might consider the findings of Madge Garland in her witty and erudite book, The Changing Form of Fashion. There, it seems, Mrs. Garland has produced a canvas whose warp is the skillful weaving together of art, literature, history and anthropology, and whose weft is the adroit contrast in the change-not of a recurring cycle, however irregular-between past and present in fashion...
...that, he felt, would have been both indecent and unlucky. More recently, Soprano Beverly Sills went through an entire act of La Traviata with a tenor who never once looked at her. Conclusion: tenors as a group are still not only shorter and rounder than their heroines, but as adroit as ever at underwhelming them romantically...
Though Kekkonen is sometimes accused of being the Kremlin's errand boy, he has actually performed an adroit balancing act in his dealings with the Soviets. A northern lumberman's son who was once the national high-jump champion (top performance: 6 ft. in 1924), Kekkonen fought the Russians during World War I and in 1940 was one of only two members of Parliament who voted against ceding any Finnish territory to the Soviets. In 1943, however, he realized that the Nazis were losing the war and concluded that Finland would have to adopt a policy of Soviet...