Word: discreeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Youth Movement. Despite their adventurous outlook, all of the top men in Lehman's baroquely ornamented eleven-story headquarters at No. 1 William Street, a discreet short block away from Manhattan's Wall Street, are well past today's popular business retirement age. The presiding patriarch, Robert ("Bobby") Lehman, spare and spry at 73, controls the major part of the firm's capital, operates out of a jewel-box-sized office with just enough wall space for six small paintings from his $100 million private collection.* Though he concentrates on picking promising youthful talent, Lehman...
...Discreet Hand. Scranton has been dodging trouble himself by avoiding any premature disclosure of his future plans. He has kept a deft, discreet hand in national Republican affairs-just enough to hold onto his credentials as a Republican to be reckoned with. He participated in formation of the Republican Coordinating Committee last year and has otherwise supported National Chairman Ray Bliss. While counseling amity between the party's "responsible conservatives" and "progressives" (a term he prefers over "moderate"), he has also taken the now mandatory slap at the "radical fringe." In the fall he campaigned in New Jersey...
...Missoula, Mont. -on the recommendation of a Duke coed whose brother had played with Lewis in high school. Figuring that the coal and steel country of Pennsylvania ought to be a happy hunting ground for raw basketball talent as well as for football, Bubas conducted a discreet investigation-and found Forward Jack Marin (Farrell, Pa.), Forward Bob Riedy (Allentown, Pa.) and Guard Steve Vacendak (Scranton...
Beethoven combines Haydnesque trickery with his own discreet innovations in the First Symphony. However, both humor and novelty escaped notice in Friday's performance. We did discover that the Bach Society can play very well when it wishes, as in the final Allegro, and also rather aimlessly, as in the shapeless, hurried Andante (which exposed the unpolished second violins...
...Diplomatic Lesson. After four weeks of discreet conversations, the negotiators completed the "preliminary articles" of a treaty that conceded all the major U.S. demands and envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous Mesabi iron lode, were included by a cartographical accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety...