Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator Homer Capehart rose to protest. The next day Kerr answered Capehart with a deft revision of the Congressional Record: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
Everything about The Horse's Mouth is deft, and much of it is truly remarkable. Guinnesss wrote the screenplay himself--basing it, of course, on Joyce Cary's novel--and this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie...
...Other Reason. Debussy did not start his first important work-the Prelude a I'Aprés-midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began...
Here Mike Bassett flipped to Hobie Armstrong, who handed off to Bill Taylor on a double reverse. Taylor sprinted for a few yards, and then lateraled to Mike Bassett on his left. This bit of razzle dazzle was good for 14 yards, and it was succeeded by an exceptionally deft run of Bill Grana's for 15 yards...
...preserving his policies. As usual, there was plenty of politics mixed in the oil. E.N.I, in its freewheeling way is much admired by the Nenni Socialists, whose displeasure could bring down Fanfani's precariously balanced Cabinet. Many Italian politicos are beholden to E.N.I., which under Mattei practiced a deft and munificent nonpartisanship. E.N.I, was one of the largest contributors to Fanfani's Christian-Democratic Party, gave generously to other political parties. Italian politicians who could find time to write reports for E.N.I, or give lectures to its officials were well paid. The man who handled many of E.N.I...