Word: adroitness
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...presidency, has been campaigning as diligently as anyone. But Manila politicians predict that at a certain point Garcia will step aside in favor of someone who will gratify his real ambition, a seat in the Supreme Court. This someone might be either Nacionalista Party Chief Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, or adroit old Yaleman (Law School '20) José Laurel Sr., who was puppet President during the Japanese occupation. Another eager to run is Magsaysay's old enemy Claro Recto, who was puppet Foreign Minister. It was not an impressive lineup...
Egypt's young soldier-dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gave another demonstration last week of the fact that he may be down but he is still kicking. The demonstration did nothing to ease his own problems, or anybody else's, but the technique was certainly adroit. It was also becoming familiar: inciting the mobs and agitating wildly in the newspapers, then helping himself to what is doubtfully his with a careful display of scrupulous legality on his own part...
...Symphony No. 1, by Philadelphia-born Pianist Leo Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man. It is all prime fun among the primates, and calls to mind the verse of a British poet in which an ape reflects on the Darwinian version of the Fall...
...need for a new code has been long felt in the industry and most directors have become quite adroit at suggesting rather than stating the obvious, or implying one thing and saying another. The movie-version of Tea and Sympathy for instance, turned a lad suspected of homosexuality into an introvert who didn't like sports. But the theme of The Man With the Golden Arm could not be twisted enough to fit inside the limits of the Old Code. As one wit put it, "You just can't make a dope addict into an off-beat character." The film...