Word: adroitness
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, star in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles Mac-Arthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s. When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain on this breezy merriment, the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...
...default, the man who seems likely to face these trials, at least for the coming year, is Acting President Andrew Cordier, 68. Some people at Columbia feel that Cordier, by virtue of his adroit interregnum administration, deserves to be made the new president. But Cordier insists that he wants to return as soon as possible to his regular post as dean of the School of International Affairs. Columbia's search continues...
...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, are featured in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in Chicago in the 1920s...
Parenthood Renounced. Students themselves are for the most part unimpressed with internal changes at many universities. Even where adroit maneuvering avoided tough police action against dissidents, as at the University of Chicago, there is bitterness. Roger Black, editor of the Chicago undergraduate paper Maroon, said last week that the "tightlipped, moralistic and adamant" attitude of administrators and senior professors has "planted very deep seeds of demoralization." Looking beyond the campus, many students are even more distressed. Apparent progress in negotiations over Viet Nam has been too slight to eliminate the war issue. Military spending, poverty, the skein of racial problems...
When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain, an adroit cast and the briskly coordinated timing of Director Harold Kennedy have stirred up such breezy merriment that the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...