Word: cunningness
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Propaganda bombast aside, Ho Chi Minh, dead or alive, provided the crucial element in North Viet Nam's astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history...
"They're surprised that I'm wacky and that I can sing," smiles Actress Eileen Fulton, whose nightclub act at New York's Plaza Hotel includes gospel music as well as Duke Ellington songs. Until now, Fulton has been better known to audiences as Lisa Shea, that...
Gold Buttons. "Simplicity" and "innocence" were Pepys' dominant qualities, counters Ollard, the arch defender, while allying himself to another camp of Pepys interpreters, the 20th century aesthetes. For them, the true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly...
Dabney attacked Vidal mainly for his characterization of Washington as variously having a "cold, serpent's nature," casting a "serpent's glance" and employing "serpentine cunning." No major historian or biographer of Washington has ever before found any such reptilian element in Washington's personality, Dabney contended...
The same judgments apply to Conversation in the Cathedral, a long, layered tale about indolence, greed, violence, corruption, sexual perversion and general animal cunning in modern Peru. The novel is a vortex of determinism driven by one central question: "At what precise moment,"asks the leading character, "had Peru-itself...