Word: deftly
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...everything everyone said of it. (Says Donner of his numbers skill, in characteristic self-deprecation: "Some people can sketch, but to me it comes easily to use figures, almost like a language.") In ultimate tribute to G.M.'s collective judgment, however, Donner has also shown himself deft with people and a first-class administrator. Says one of G.M.'s outside directors: "Fred Donner is the epitome of the G.M. spirit of hard work and analysis. He knows where the company is, where it is going, and how it is going to get there, better than anyone else...
...used the voice as a musical instrument, at times calling upon performers to jump two octaves, insisting that consonants as well as vowels be stressed, introducing a kind of staccato syllabification that somehow managed not to obscure the text. What gave Dido its strange and haunting power was the deft balance of the vocal writing-so carefully calculated that all 32 choristers were able to sing together without destroying the work's flexible texture...
...whole follows his lead. It ranges across every relevant topic from aerospace medicine to the U.S.'s unmanned satellite programs. Scientists and astronauts stand up at blackboards and clearly explain just how landings are made on the earth and would be made on the surface of the moon. Deft animation explains the complicated docking procedure: hooking up a manned capsule to an orbiting rocket, providing the added power to complete a lunar voyage...
After seven tense weeks of bickering over a constitution, Kenya's African leaders flew home from London last week hoping to prepare their country for independence in 1963. Through deft compromise, Britain had won African acceptance of its constitutional proposals, and persuaded both major political parties to form a coalition government to rule the colony in the meantime. In the House of Commons, where he acknowledged a rare Opposition tribute to his skill in concluding the long, costly ($756,000 ) conference, Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling declared: "We have now be?un the process of cooperation...
...Hollywood usually avoids them because they often kick back. The more reason to be pleasantly surprised that Walt Disney, not specifically known for socio-political daring, should have herded three of these pampered critters-the FBI, the Air Force and the astronaut program -into the same plot. Under the deft manipulation of Director James Neilson and Scenarist Maurice Tombragel, they produce a fairly steady stream of healthy nonsense...