Word: adroitness
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...asked for it." The governor is not content with merely asking politely; he seeks what he wants with a whirling, all-out showmanship that horrifies his more conservative colleagues, depresses Democrats, and wins California votes in ever-increasing numbers. Politically, Goodie belongs to an old breed: he is an adroit practitioner of the crushing handshake, the baby kiss, the bellowed platitude, the corny joke, the remembered name. He likes nothing better than an oldfashioned, razzle-dazzle political campaign, and he campaigns every year all year round. His harried staffers estimate that when he is in good form, the governor makes...
...Adroit, fast-moving Mario Scelba took the U.S. in his stride. During his state visit to Washington he had an hour-long conference with President Eisenhower, followed by a White House luncheon. He visited Capitol Hill, where he got a standing ovation from the House and Senate, conferred with Vice President Richard Nixon and four Cabinet-rank officials, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
With a clumsiness to bring guffaws from a third-rate union negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good-naturedly, the Westerners agreed to help add two Red birds, Byelorussia and the Ukraine, to the nest. On the very evening that the eagles had their frank talk about the small birds, even before the blueprint for the U.N. had been agreed upon, disillusion began...
More significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
Before he died at 68, Alexandre the Great wrote between 500 and 600 books and plays - an exact account is impossible. Says Biographer Maurois: "Dumas was a hero out of Dumas. As strong as Porthos, as adroit as d'Artagnan, as generous as Edmond Dantès, this superb giant strode across the 19th century breaking down doors with his shoulder . . . It is as im possible not to like him as it is not to read him . . . No one has read all of Dumas -this would be as implausible as writing it was. But most of mankind has read...