Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Anne Parrish, 68, novelist, deft, sometimes ruthless, seldom lenient recorder of typical American scenes (Poor Child, All Kneeling); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Danbury, Conn...
Hourani, a deft opportunist who combines considerable organizational ability with an intuitive sense of knowing just when to switch his ideologies. "Hourani," a Damascene political expert once remarked, "has changed camels so many times that his backside has as many calluses as his conscience...
...heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth...
Barry Morse as the iconoclastic John Tanner plays with deft versatility which succeeds in both the comic scenes and the more serious Don Juan in Hell interlude. Opposite Morse is Nancy Wickwire who sparkles as Tanner's impish, if unwanted, suitor. As the sentimental slush Octavius Robinson, Michael Higgins is handsome, winsome, and properly Victorian...
...Wylie (384 pp.; Rinehart; $4.95), whips around the world with America's most emotional writer. When not gawping at the tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously in the right place...