Word: savvyness
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Of all the myriad U.S. political pulse takers, no one was more confounded by last week's elections than that presumably savvy gent, the local party boss. Between widespread (and carefully calculated) ticket splitting and outright reversals of voting form, the 1960 election hit many a state political machine...
Combining political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political...
As the highest man in the White House councils with practical political savvy, he found himself in occasional disagreement with Administration policy, and his situation was touchy. Sometimes he openly battled for his viewpoint in the councils of the Administration. During the 1957-58 recession, for example, he recruited Labor...
Washington. Conservative Republican Lloyd J. Andrews, Spokane apple rancher turned state superintendent of public instruction, is trying to unseat Democratic Incumbent Albert ("The Rose") Rosellini, 50. Rosellini has a strong machine, but his first term was flecked with scandal; Andrews is a vibrant campaigner but lacks his opponent's...
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. Installment No. 5 of The Music of Time, a seriocomedy of Britain between the two World Wars, which combines the antic savagery of Waugh with the social savvy of Proust.