Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judy Collins, 23, has a robust alto that she wields with strong dramatic sense, supported by a shrewd selection of material. Both help make up for a voice less handsome than either Baez' or Dobson...
Popping up out of nowhere, a mysterious "global combine" proposed to buy five Sheraton Corp. hotels on Waikiki Beach and 5,400 acres of choice land on Oahu owned by shrewd Chinn Ho, 58, most meteoric of Hawaii's new millionaires (TIME, May 5, 1961). Total price on the package deal (including a few odd lots from other landholders): $62 million...
Which makes an attack on Harvard, the inimical climate, rather irrelevant. For how can you keep a real writer down? I have always thought that a real writer, no matter how vague his ultimate aims, is gifted with a shrewd eye for anything that threatens his movements, so that when he meets an obstacle--marriage, debt the army--he will either elude it with great tact or pass through it in a spirit of utter disregard. I doubt there was ever a genuine author who blamed the landscape for his failure. It is only after his heart has left...
...Richest: ex-Queen Wilhclmina. Juliana's mother, whose fortune has been estimated at more than $1 billion. Queen Elizabeth's personal fortune, some $200 million, was founded by her shrewd great-great-grandmothcr Queen Victoria...
...four-year span. At the same time, Columbia is revamping its pioneering (1919) two-year general education program, Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology to economics, a shrewd compromise between specialization and generalization...