Word: deftly
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Last week, with deft help from Pope John XXIII, it was scaled. Dr. Archibald Craig, Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, stepped over the Pope's threshold and visited him within the Vatican's walls...
...humor lies in its closeness to the core of the situation on which it is making a comment. The best humor has always had the ability to cut through the carefully constructed cliches we have built around ourselves. We've had in this country a number of deft practitioners of the art. Twain, Lardan Benchley, Thurber, E. B. White, and more. We've had a good number of them...
Director Frances Royster has used a deft hand in keeping Roses abloom. For better or worse, her refusal to relinquish a good, crackling laugh turns the serious side of the play into something of a non-sequitur. Miss Levine may, of course, have written it in as such. At any rate, John McLean acquits himself with versatility and a feeling for the contradictions of "The Doctor's" character. Jane Schroeder is marvellously funny as the hostess, and as Rosie, Deborah Steinberg may yet prove the playmate of the western world...
...successful. "Paradise Permanently Lost," in which an American an Italian, and a Swede try to make a movie out of Milton's work, is particularly fine stuff. The American director, whose girl Friday is aptly named Beth Noir, persists in calling the poet "Jack" Milton, and there are other deft touches...
Writing with a wry, sure sense of absurdity, the author proves again that he is a superb literary entertainer. As a social satirist, Sansom is no Samson but his deft dialogue demonstrates that he can do considerable damage to the Philistines with the jawbone...