Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmon crumbles. He bitterly concludes that his life had always been directed by clever, domineering women, first his brilliant physician-mother, then his wife Laura (who as an architect made more money than he and treats him now as if he were a patient), and finally his two daughters, who are bright and saucy with progressive-school wisdom...
Mexicans are very clever horsemen, and we saw them last spring in Rome and in the Olympics - the best cavalrymen in the world, perhaps, by now. But "the big secret of Mexican riding" isn't a Mexican secret at all: it is an Italian...
...that, he has, like most of his fellow freshmen, already made his mark in the rough & tumble of practical politics. He Was twice mayor of Minneapolis, the man who helped put together Minnesota's humpty-dumpty Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who led and won the civil rights fight at the Democratic Convention last summer. One thing, above all, explains his way of thinking: all of his adult life has been spent in the era of Franklin Roosevelt. His dad, and the Dust Bowl taught him most of what he knows...
...What Am I All About?" His critics insist that he is too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise. Said one of his Minneapolis lieutenants: "The trouble with Humphrey is he never takes time out. He's never alone with himself. If the guy would only sit down with himself and say, 'What am I all about?' But he's afraid to ask himself that question...
...speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...