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Charles Englehard is a shrewd man among the shrewd, but a jolly man with a heartening laugh and sparkling dark brown eyes which mirror the clever mind behind, and when Nijinsky wins the Laurel International for his thirteenth victory in thirteen starts and retires, Englehard will have a lot to smile about, because he will have raced the greatest horse in the world, the greatest horse that any of us will probably ever see in our lifetime...
Wilson's stress on service and sensitivity is not always translated into better behavior on the beat. Julius Hobson, a local black militant, claims that many D.C. cops are as harsh as ever to the black and the poor?except that "they are more clever than they used to be and usually hold back if there are cameras around." Though most of Wilson's men admire his brains and courage, subordinates have been known to blunt his directives. His order to avoid minor arrests during the November demonstrations was never announced to the cops in one district?they read about...
Sylvie's epigrammatic style epitomizes what Europeans call the feuilleton -writing characterized by witticisms, plays on words, learned references and clever insults. Some of her targets feel that she is not all that clever. When Yitzhak Raphael was being considered for Golda Meir's coalition Cabinet, Sylvie charged-in the words of the libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card...
Helena is the main personage in All's Well. It is easy to see why Shaw so ardently admired the play, because Shakespeare provided in Helena a more striking example of the clever and strong-willed female than he had given us in the Portia of the Merchant of Venice, a type continued by Nora in lbsen's A Doll's House and by such characters from Shaw's own pen as Ann Whitefield. Major Barbara. Hesione Hushabye, and Saint Joan...
...best definition of the Boston Pops I've heard was given several years ago in the Collegiate Guide to Greater Boston. Their reviewer called the Pops "The Boston Symphony minus the first chair players, and with little or no rehearsal." Certainly this is an apt description for this clever little device to provide work for deserving local musicians after the Boston season but before Tanglewood...