Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeless population hasn't changed significantly. "The University took the easiest way out by taking the grates off and realizing that the media would not, and could not, concentrate on the more serious issue of homelessness," says Schrager, who volunteered for the Food Salvage. "Harvard wasn't caring, only clever...
...Stoppard's staging of his own The Real Inspector Hound, followed by Sheridan's dizzying spoof of epic tragedy, The Critic, last seen on Broadway 40 years ago in a production that featured Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in roles that McKellen and Petherbridge play. Hound is a schoolboy-clever send-up of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world's also-rans. Delightful all the way, it is nonetheless utterly upstaged by Sheridan's farce...
...test-tubes and their methods are aimed at producing a panoply of weapons "that would be effective in eradicating or at least controlling this virus in patients," Hirsch says. Groopman, an assistant professor of medicine, concurs, saying he has never worked so hard in his life to catch the "clever sucker...
During his dazzling years at Eton and Cambridge, nobody doubted that the very clever boy would build a very clever career. But at what? He was as interested in medieval Latin poetry and Peter Abelard as he was in math and the laws of probability. When he took the civil service exams that led to his first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred...
...laid the groundwork for America's New Deal and Britain's welfare state. With Keynes' white-hot essay against the prohibitive peace that followed the costly war, Skidelsky has found the perfect stopping point for Volume I. Here, at 36, in the fullness of his moral indignation, the very clever boy came to ripeness as a man as well as an economist. Presuming that in this century "only economics could provide the correct reasoning for the achievement of the chivalrous society," as Skidelsky puts it, Keynes staked the claim of the economist to be king...