Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When John Maynard Keynes was five, his great-grandmother wrote to him, "You will be expected to be very clever, having lived always in Cambridge." The advice came late. Precocious Maynard, with the assistance of his father, a Cambridge don, had already begun collecting stamps and would soon go on to collect butterflies, pen nibs and numbers. Any numbers. Cricket statistics, people's heights and weights, train schedules...
Still, it took a while for the very clever boy to tally his sums and become an economist: he did not read Adam Smith until he was 27, and it took him even longer to become a complete human being. In the first of a two-volume biography that promises to be definitive, Robert Skidelsky, a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick, England, illuminates sensitively and in great detail how the making of an economist finally coincided with the making...
...THOSE WHO think wisdom most often resides in the mouths of babes, beware: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown is a kiddie show that's cutesy not clever. Given that it is a staged distortion of situations best left to the newspaper pages--or, if necessary, TV specials--the talented company does a respectable job of entertaining the little ones...
...clever, literate, elliptical writing is the best in comics today. The art is a departure from the flat, lurid drawing associated with comics ever since Roy Lichtenstein made his fortune with it; Miller uses shadows and suggestions to conceal the absurd aspects of his medium--we all saw how silly a man really looks in a Batman suit--and inventive panel arrangement to exploit its strengths. Klaus Janson's inking adds depth to the art, and the coloring, by Lynn Varley, is subtle and effective...
...years went by, contributors started asking when they were going to see the huge returns that had been promised. They were put off with a variety of clever excuses about the frequent change in Ghanaian governments and snags in getting the special passport. Finally, Attorney Ginsberg went to the D.A.'s office...