Word: deviousness
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...adage, "He who has a Hungarian for a friend does not need an enemy," may well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the case of János Rakóssy, the tough, devious hero of this historical novel. The Hungarians were latecomers to Western Europe, drifting in from southern Russia in the 9th century, and they were so often friendless that it is a wonder they lasted at all. Rakóssy is set in one of the worst times of trouble for the Magyars-when Suleyman the Magnificent and his Turkish Janissaries swept...
...endeared himself to his constituents. Each new public-opinion sampling brings evidence of an ever-widening "affection gap": last week the Minneapolis Tribune reported an eleven-month slippage from 72% to 48% in Minnesotans' approval of his performance. The credibility gap, fostered by the President's often devious ways, also keeps growing. An airline executive fresh from a visit to Lyndon's home state reported last week that "in Texas...
SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few foolish females who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, GwenVerdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can t find the best bait to hook...
SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few and foolish women who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, Gwen Verdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can't find the best bait to hook...
More than the definition of liberal ism, as Krock sees it, has changed in the U.S. President Johnson, in particular, has changed. "I didn't see any of the Great Society compulsory stuff in his days as a young Congressman." Today, says Krock, Johnson is a "sly and devious man." From the reporter's point of view, Harry Truman was the great President-"absolutely candid, not a bone of secrecy in his body and scarcely one of reticence...