Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder why it is that sign-off's in the college are twice as high as those in the graduate school." Clever undergrads were already beginning to find medical excuses a fine way to cut classes or exams...
...minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise of gentility to suggest that Dunster House students would not profit by reading Norman Douglas' South Wind. . .Here...
...secrets of creation. Though not particularly subtle, John Updike's lampoon hits Life in its soft underbelly of complacency, and at its breathless wonder at the scope of its own accomplishments. The text of the parody, while not particularly applicable to the article in question, is a clever-enough adaptation of Time-style: "Earth then (156 billion B.C.) was barren, cold, lonely, dull." On the whole the satire is a clever idea, competently done...
Some of his gags were clever enough, some of his scenes had the right farcical commotion for a different kind of play, and in Walter Matthau he had an engaging leading man. But the play, which closed at week's end after five performances, was far from expert on its own terms, and its terms were a little shabby anyhow. Playwright Hess seemed to have chosen his theme for no better reason than that it is in the air right now, and to have handled it as though it were going...
...breaks: some frolicking children found at water's edge a gun stolen the night of the robbery from Brink's and in a dump 20 miles from Boston, a caretaker discovered a green Ford truck, neatly cut up with an acetylene torch. In both cases the crooks had been clever, but not clever enough. They buried the gun in a low-tide mud-flat, but the children decided this was just the mud-flat they wanted to build sand-castles in. It was "clean-up, paint-up" day in the town which used the dump, and the very...