Word: shrewdness
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Virgil, seen here, is decent, ordinary and a bit slow. Not a good match, the reader feels, for the shrewd Virgil of the next section, who reluctantly accepts the stony verdict of his family and acquaintances, including the local sheriff, that he must kill the man who murdered his wild brother Boyd. The author does his impressive best to make this believable, writing a drunk scene in which Virgil sprawls on his back in the night woods and stares at the Milky Way. Virgil sobers up and, as efficiently as a spy-story villain, creates an elaborate false identity...
DIED. ELBRIDGE DURBROW, 93, shrewd diplomat who for all his acumen could not maneuver the U.S. out of intemperate relations; in Walnut Creek, Calif. From the Moscow embassy, Durbrow witnessed the beginning of the cold war in the late 1940s. War seemed to shadow him; in 1957 he became ambassador to South Vietnam just in time to watch that region move toward conflagration...
...effective in the skill of their telling. Yet the pieces of the novel don't really hang together, notes Skow. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories, and in them Virgil's character swings wildly from ordinary and a bit slow to shrewd man of action to passive observer...
NIKE Forget Heaven's Gate; $40 million Tiger Woods contract looks cheap. Shrewd deal...
...absolutely phenomenal, and I'm disappointed that Princeton wasn't able to offer him anything," Sandoval said. "Harvard's making a very shrewd move. Anyone who can take a class from him should...