Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clever nasties like Hobbes...
...regret the decision of CHUL to use the Polaroid ID system for freshman ID cards. Despite Bob Palmer's clever dismissal of the Polaroid involvement and support of the South African regime, we feel compelled to take issue with the candor of his statements...
...only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti-social artist. Stoppard should have spent less time trying to be clever in the first act and moving in the second, and produced the kind of appealing characters, sharp dialogue and thought-provoking positions on life and art that we know he is capable of from his earlier plays. As it is, Travesties stands about the lowest on any scale of dramatic...
Most letters to the editor favoring amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters leave the impression that all of them are men of high principle and ethics. Aren't any of them just plain goldbricks or smart asses who not only considered it clever to walk off and leave the dirty detail for somebody else but, even worse, felt that the guys who did stay and carry the load were just dopes...
...Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski, an Illinois Republican, "Jerry is an open tactician. He doesn't look for clever ways to sneak in behind you. He does the obvious, which is usually common sense...