Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh. The deft and relentless British satirist writes his second fine war novel around the exploits and disillusionments of Guy Crouchback, commando officer and "Christian gentleman" (TIME, July...
...some expert imported from outside. Otherwise, the twelve were encouraged to devise their own programs. They studied in the institute's well-stocked library, worked in its shops and greenhouse, tramped through its acres of woods, set up a whole series of heated round-table discussions. Under the deft guidance of Psychologist Ruth Andrus, they not only rediscovered the art of conversation, they also found a host of talents they had never suspected before...
Peter Junger's choral poem The Magic Circle, which proceded Corso's play, did not measure up. James Shucter's direction was extremely deft, and together with the precise and sometimes beautiful delivery of Peggy Polk, Nancy Curtis, Keith Gardiner, and Harold Scott, exploited well what the poem had to offer. But to me this was not a great deal. Junger's language is often musical and thrilling, but his images of fallen glory (grey Byzantium, the sleeping emperor, druids) and modern confusion (herds of taxis, flame-winged planes, departing stars) seemed little more than trite. At times...
...time when entertainers are often shoved onstage as a result of a hit record, without any other experience, Sammy Davis Jr. is a seasoned pro. His dancing is a study of fine rhythm and agility, his timing precise, his ad libs are deft. But he says: "I never studied anything I do. I just wake up in the morning thinking it would be good to do Bing Crosby...
Again and again last week, in Cuba, Mexico and Guatemala, Nixon showed the same deft soft-collar touch. When a Cuban reporter at a news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before...