Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloody well develop it. And so he does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...
...newspaper copyreader," wrote the late New York Herald Tribune City Editor Stanley Walker, "doubtless deserves better from fate than he has received. He is completely anonymous. His job usually is monotonous. His deft touches with a pencil may raise a story out of the ordinary, but it is the handsome, much-publicized reporter who gets the credit. The copyreader sits on the rim of the horseshoe desk, does his stint, and then goes home...
LARRY YOUNG: INTO SOMETHIN' (Blue Note). A jazz organist who can produce a big sound without drowning the listener is a rare man, but Larry Young is deft enough to do it. He can also comment sensitively and even wryly on the instrument most alien to modern jazz...
...MAKEPEACE EXPERIMENT, by Abram Tertz. The pseudonymous author, a Russian satirist who smuggled out four previous novels, writes a deft parable about Communism in which a village bicycle mechanic learns to control people by "mental magnetism." With his new powers, the mechanic makes the village government "wither away," with disastrously funny results...
Palmer is played with deft, dry precision by Actor Michael Caine, who looks a bit like Peter O'Toole with most of the psychological kinks ironed out. Insubordinate and often insufferable, he is assigned to recover a kidnaped British scientist held by criminals who contribute to the nation's "brain drain" by snatching and selling top scientific talent to foreign powers...