Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adversity. These go far beyond merely trimming payrolls and such obvious economies as light, telephone and office-supply bills. Each day the recession continues, business must look harder at its policies, products, production, and-most of all-sales executive talent. "In a boom, it's hard to pick smart young executives," said one corporate boss. "Everyone looks good because the business comes in anyway. But in a recession, the good men stand...
...Sergeant Kolodzi the war has reached a harrowing personal climax. He is a soldier of the Wehrmacht, fighting on his home ground where his mother and his girl still live, where his father, killed by partisans, is buried. Kolodzi knows the war is finished, that the smart thing to do is to desert, get his mother and girl to safety before the Russians drive into his home town. But Kolodzi is also a first-rate soldier with a feeling of loyalty to his fellows. When he hears the opening roar of the massive Russian artillery barrage, he leaves the arms...
Many salesmen today cry: "Sell harder!" Said Brower: "That's nonsense, if by 'hard sell' you mean nothing more than high pressure. There is really no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There is only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell...
Just one of Capp's Harvard characters is based on a specific individual. A "smart Indian lawyer" called Harvard G. Polecat (the "G" is for "graduate") has, according to Capp," all the facial and physical characteristics of Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." This fact has not disturbed Capp's friendship with his Cambridge neighbor...
What is strong and moving about Two Women stems from the unblinking Italian taste for realismo and Author Moravia's vividly tactile imagery, which makes the reader smart with the sting of his heroines' indignities. What is weak and irritating is Leftist Moravia's implicit conviction that war is really a bloody reprise of the class struggle. The only emotion more persuasive than pity that he displays in Two Women is self-pity. When it comes to man's fate-the tragedy that lies too deep for tears-Moravia, the master weeper, refuses to open...