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Another returnee from a year's hiatus is senior pointman Glenn Fine. A deft ballhandler and penetrating guard, Find is expected to quarterback the Crimson fastbreak...
Those assessments could change considerably depending on how the energy brouhaha is settled. Whatever the outcome, Carter has already shown signs that his dealings with Congress in 1978 will be more deft. Having failed initially to lobby the Senate effectively for his energy proposals, he has been making the right moves as the showdown approaches. He has been inviting key Democratic leaders to the White House and telephoning others who can help. "There has been a gradual metamorphosis," says Brademas about meetings between the President and congressional leaders. "At first there was a reserve; everyone was taking each other...
...Road shows were rummage sales of stuff out of vaudeville, burlesque-marvelously shoddy masterpieces offeree and fantasy, stitched together with cliches and ad libs. The series proved, if nothing else, that Crosby was nearly as deft-and daft-a comedian as Hope. But by then Bing was a giant with or without Hope...
Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, the chief U.S. delegate, arrived in Belgrade with a big smile and a deft phrase, promising to promote "detente with a human face." Next day the Soviet Union's Yuli Vorontsov invited Goldberg to lunch at a Belgrade restaurant; the Russians picked up the tab. By the luck of the draw, both delivered their opening remarks on the same day. Confident and assured, Vorontsov boasted that the new Soviet constitution that had just been adopted embodied all the basic principles of the Helsinki accord. He pointedly warned that "cooperation in humanitarian and other...
...between human beings." The emphasis, if not the timing, is wholly believable, for Menuhin's autobiography is above all a book about people, a series of descerning and generous portraits of the individuals encountered throughout a lifetime. The great and lowly alike are brought to life with a few deft words: de Gaulle, Nehru, Ben-Gurion, Willa Cather ("Aunt Willa...a rock of strength and sweetness"), Bela Bartok ("a composer to bear comparison with the giants of the past"), the family's Italian cook, a hotel porter in Leipzig, Solzhenitsyn, Glenn Gould ("that most exotic of my colleagues") and Jacob...