Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleverest thing I ever did," said the White Knight, "was inventing a new pudding during the meat course . . . [But] I don't believe that pudding ever will be cooked. And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent...
...William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
...actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor to do, by making him something of a jaunty rake and something more of a sophisticate. His Iago was decidedly not one of unalloyed evil and superior intellect. The other...
...even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents to embassies, intelligence officers, ministries and newspaper correspondents. . . . Judging from the Soviet press ... it is likely that documents are being peddled with equal facility on the other side of the Iron Curtain. . . . The market for such 'phonies' is probably...
...wonder how many people in Europe have a right understanding of the revolution that has taken place in Asia in the last 40 years. ... If the European was feared because he was strong, admired because he was clever, and trusted because he was believed to be honest . . . [now] the West has lost its opportunity of domination. . . . Western civilization is no longer regarded as civilization...