Word: slyness
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...memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
YEAR'S end is a time for auditing the books, reviewing the old. anticipating the new. In the spirit of the season. Cinema Critic Brad Darrach, with his usual mixture of slyness and seriousness, picks the best films of 1961, and TIME'S book reviewers make their collective judgment on the best books of the year. Another of TIME'S hardier traditions is the year-end business review. It attempts to say where we've been and where we're going. This year the review pays special note to a facet of the economy that...
Nothing goes right. The collective farm manager is cooking the books and concealing a pair of White officers dying of boredom. The Cossacks frustrate Davidov's best efforts with peasant slyness, cheerful inefficiency and occasional open rebellion. When he does get a field mowed, the hay is promptly stolen by farmers from a neighboring collective run by a fat and crafty Ukrainian. And, for once in a Soviet novel, a girl proves more lovable than a tractor: lush, hot-eyed Lukeria soon shows Davidov that there are better uses for a meadow than grazing cattle...
...received a delegation of frightened hens. He had a friendly chat with them all, and in no way did he take advantage of his slyness to deceive the petitioners and the critics...
...growing U.S. audience, the names of British Novelists Henry Green and Joyce Gary suggest writing that shines with wit and good humor even when they are dealing with serious stuff. Though Gary's work runs to richness and Green's to slyness, they have one thing in common: they make most U.S. novelists of 1950 seem lugubriously pedestrian...