Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolff is never less than intelligent and clever. His novel tails off because he plays with too many ideas rather than...
...Havens tells it, he, "Rese" and Scott Mead '77 had been eliminated from last spring's NCAA tournament in the early rounds. Sitting around that night, one of them--the culprit remains unidentified--had the clever idea to leave an early wake-up call for the Princeton coaches...
...Peking, tickets to ideologically suspect movies are among the most highly prized items on the black market. Though screenings of such films as The Red Shoes and The Sound of Music are restricted to high Communist officials, a clever practitioner of tsou-hou-men can sneak in by exchanging a favor with someone employed in the moviehouse or in the Ministry of Culture...
Although the musicians are excellent and the costumes clever, neither can provide the needed base to tie the whole show together. The songs in Nightcaps seem chosen at random for no particular purpose with no specific standards. The first half closes with "Anything Goes," hardly a neglected tune. Despite some updated lyrics and dynamic dancing, the song's presence asks the questions "Why these songs? Why this show?" and answers with the song's title...
Harris's book is original and thought-provoking yet, throughout, one should remember that 16th century warning about relying on the clever for unbiased information. Certainly, Cannibals and Kings is entertaining and unburdened by the gobbledygook much recent writing on sociology is infamous for. Its chief fault is its glibness. Levi-Strauss, discussing the theories of geographer-turned-anthropologist Boas, wrote: "Social experiences and those constant interactions between the group and the individual cannot be inferred; they must be observed...