Word: cunningness
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Lost Backing. Belying his outward simplicity was his great drive and cunning. Throughout the twists and turns of Communist Party history, he proved the ruthless loyalty that made him the trusted instrument of the Soviets. During the Spanish Civil War he went to Spain and helped liquidate the Communists who...
It failed by straining credulity in portraying the slender, subservient Dean, a born follower, as the "mastermind" in the Watergate coverup, with former Attorney General John Mitchell as "his patron." It contended, in effect, that this cunning pair participated in planning the political espionage at Democratic National Headquarters and then...
Sandbagged. Connally denied press reports that he was quitting because he had not been given a staff or had not been consulted enough. From most accounts, however, he had been unhappy in his job. At the outset, he was sandbagged by a politician even more cunning than himself. He had...
To which R.W. Burchfield, the O.E.D.'s chief editor, replies, in effect, "balderdash." He told the Philological Society that "we are concerned with the accurate recording of language, not what people think it should be." Burchfield's chief concession to his lexicographical critics has been to include in...
Director-Writer Mazursky is devastatingly shrewd and wry, especially adept at catching the most convoluted of emotional entanglements and turning them into the kind of comedy that pierces. Blume's often quite mad struggle to wriggle back into wedded bliss is an ideal occasion for Mazursky to comment once...