Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observant readers will shrewdly connect the smiling fellow at right, surrounded by assault rifles, with this week's cover story on the proliferation of guns in America. Shrewd connection, but wrong. That's New Delhi bureau chief Edward W. Desmond, who has seen his share of these weapons and the wars they fuel in south Asia since his arrival last October. Two weeks ago, Desmond managed to fly to Kabul, the Afghan capital, which faces a turbulent future as Soviet soldiers withdraw and the rebels move in. The nine- year-old war has proved a special challenge to Western reporters...
...energy campaigning for one of Kennedy's opponents (State Rep. Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...
Soon, Toulon meets Sister Marguerite, a nun who is frustrated in her attempts to get raped. Heather Gunn, as Marguerite, gives the play's best performance. Shrill and shrewd, Gunn glides from comedy to tragedy to opera, landing squarely on top of each one. She even gets Howells' grumpy Toulon to smile on occasion...
...This shrewd collaboration may be calculated to keep the party from losing the initiative and divert nationalist sentiment into controllable channels. But the tactic is not without risk. Concerned that 90% of the Popular Front members are Estonian, Russians who live in the Baltic republic have formed their own "international" movement. Estonian leader Valjas has urged Popular Front members to "avoid aggravating nationalist disputes...
...that was told from Grendel's point of view. There is a scene in which a wandering bard arrives among the drunken cretins and begins to sing beautiful songs to them about what they have accomplished that day in battle. Atrocity becomes glory, bloodletting becomes heroic. It is a shrewd point about mythmaking, and perhaps about the making of the myth of Camelot...