Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This exhibition reveals Mr. Black's apt and shrewd judgement. If perhaps, he was too fond of the works of Kubin, a tasteful illustrator but hardly a significant artist, he did give the Busch Reisinger many fine prints by Kokoschka, Corinth, and others...
...hard-pressed military missilemen, Critchfield raised hopes of at last finding a boss who knows his way around with two kinds of rare birds: missiles and scientists. Critchfield knows his way around in still another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds on any hand. "You're better off," said a poorer but wiser Convair colleague, "to give him your paycheck to start, and stay out of the game...
Earl Montgomery, as Doctor Stockmann, has much of the bearing of a "matinee idol," and appears much younger than his wife, admirably portrayed by Lois Holmes. Art Smith, as Morton Kiil, presents a striking portrait of her shrewd and disreputable father. Gene Frankel's direction is adept and certain touches are superb. Yet with the children, who add more distraction than depth, his direction is spotty and they generally dash onstage with a gust, then settle into the shadows to await their lines...
...this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead Rocky will weigh the evidence, not merely of the polls, but of the state of the nation and the world, all of which bear so critically on the fortunes of Vice President Nixon. Said he last week...
Selected at random, the hapless four were the first of "several hundreds" whom the Finance Ministry plans to expose to publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back...