Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabethans. Nemesis, in the Hemingway tragedy, is bad luck. "I was going good," says Manuel, the gored bullfighter in The Undefeated, "I didn't have any luck. That was all." "Never fight under me," says Colonel Cantwell in Across the River and Into the Trees. "I'm cagey. But I'm not lucky." Even Santiago, the old fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea, says, "I have no luck any more." Under the brilliant physical surface in Hemingway there was always the metaphysical brooding, the glancing reflections on a destiny his characters keep telling themselves...
...delicacy, devotion and disappointment, few sports come close to the Auerhahn shoot. Only the male of the species may be hunted, and the bird is so cagey that it can be approached only during mating season-when its sharp sense of hearing is momentarily dulled by the ecstasy of its own love call. Bad weather or bad luck can plague the most careful stalker. Heavy winds, for example often drown out the telltale mating call; morning alpine mists make successful camouflage. And when the Auerhahn is not clucking rapturously, it is listening intently for female response; the slightest sigh from...
...Self-Destruction. In Hamlet, worldly-wise Polonius gets everything wrong but is never at a loss for plausible hypotheses or cagey tactics. Lewis Eliot is only half wrong in these novels, but that half blights his personal life. His wife and his best friend take parallel roads to self-destruction...
...Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey CBS reporter persuaded Chicago Manufacturer William Rentschler, chairman of "Thank You Ike Day," to wear a microphone under his tie, and CBS picked up the words of Ike's greeting to the welcoming committee ("I know this must be taking a lot of time and effort...
...more skeptical than she had been in the old high times. "I didn't know whether to accept the gifts or not," she said. "When I was married and my husband gave me a $7,000 bracelet, I always got the bill next month. It made me very cagey...