Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great country worthy of the name," De Gaulle is said to have remarked recently, "does not have any friends." That is not the American definition of greatness. The State Department's Harlan Cleveland makes a shrewd and significant distinction between popularity and public support: the U.S. does not need to court popularity, but it wants and often needs support. It is easy to become cynical about world opinion and to conclude that it should be ignored completely. But to do so implies that world opinion is always against the U.S. and that the U.S. can do nothing about...
Opulently photographed in and around a crumbling English abbey, Ligeia, like its predecessors, offers meticulous decor, shrewd shock techniques, and an atmosphere of mounting terror that fails to deliver on its promise. Again, the cream-centered menace is Vincent Price, an actor who appears to be swooping around in a cape even when he stands perfectly still. His first wife dead, Price marries a breathtaking beauty (Elizabeth Shepherd) and takes her on a honeymoon that includes a stop at Stonehenge. Back home he resumes his necrophilic fancies until, as usual, a great raging holocaust consumes castle, corpses, black cats, Price...
...poisoned arrow, a bumbling British doctor turns out to be more competent than first seemed true. This kind of thing is told and forgotten over whisky and soda, and the reader is a little surprised to find himself completely caught up in it. What is absorbing is the shrewd and unobtrusive way Wood makes his assessment of a variety of men. As his reminiscence turns to the years of British withdrawal from the colony, he earns the reader's deepening respect by judging the Africans who are coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral...
Though filling his Cabinet largely with right-wingers, Wilson of course had to make room for the left. In part, it was a shrewd device that served to silence some potentially vocal critics. He put Leftist Dick Crossman in charge of Housing, well aware that he knew little about this complex subject and would be kept too busy doing his homework to have any time for intraparty politicking. The same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union...
National Names. Royster is a North Carolina boy who was shrewd enough not to shed all his country ways in the big city. He still has a fetching Southern drawl, a dry wit that takes people by surprise, and a name that stands out even in New York. Vermont's great-granddaddy, a practical man, decided to name his children after states in order to tell them apart. Along came Iowa Michigan Royster, Wisconsin Illinois, Arkansas Delaware, Virginia Carolina, Georgia Alabama, Nathaniel Confederate States. No hard feelings about Yankees; one boy was named Vermont Connecticut, and the name...