Word: adroitness
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Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg rates among the top Cabinet members for his articulation of the Administration's labor-management policies and for his adroit mediation of labor disputes involving ferryboats and tugboats, airline flight engineers, and the Metropolitan Opera...
...with "the real raw emotions of jazz." Since the insistently cool Modern Jazz Quartet, a favorite of critics on both sides of the Atlantic, is frequently praised for its lack of raw emotion, chances are that Brubeck's real sin is his popular success. One of the more adroit English critics, Benny Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal "to the casual listener as well as to the specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz...
...above his portentous title-four of them are grossly miscast, but the customers won't realize that until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller at that...
Sophomore John Vinton utilized an adroit backhand shot in defeating Tech captain Joe Rapport...
Along with this fertile, if predictable, plot Bergman has his usual advantages of his troupe's superb acting and unparalleled camerawork by Gunnar Fischer. The story gives ample room for the irony of inversion, where good and bad are reversed, at which Bergman is so adroit. One wonders, then, how a director could possibly ruin the film...