Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smart pawnbrokers spotted the trend a few years ago and set about changing their image. Manhattan's Kaskel's, which now calls itself a "loan broker," looks more like a high-fashion department store with its mink-draped mannequins and velvet-lined jewelry display cases. "We have customers who earn as much as $250,000 a year, and the majority earn more than $10,000," boasts Owner Richard Kaskel...
Castles & Beaches. The regime was too smart to look a gift horde in the mouth. It started plugging tourism for all it was worth. Spain's stern moral codes were relaxed to permit bikinis on beaches where 15 years before men had been arrested for not wearing tops. Resort hotels sprouted in bunches, and the government added nine Spanish castles and monasteries to its own network of hostels and inns. Iberia airlines bought 18 new jets and more than doubled its flights to make Spanish beaches easier to reach...
Brechtian theory is all the rage with your smart act these days, and it is reliably reported that one cannot so much as whistle a few bars of "Mack the Knife" in the Square without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that...
...Quick as the wind that often stirred the banana trees with utter ferocity in his home town, where his favorite horse had died an alcoholic death, the smart copper jumped on the thief just as the sinister individual was about to ride off on his faithful vehicle...
...aggressive educator from California, Las Vegas School Superintendent Leland Byerly Newcomer, 44, has been shrewd enough to realize that the collective conscience of Las Vegas is bothered by the area's dependence on its dubious industry-and Newcomer has been smart enough to play upon that conscience to develop one of the nation's most improved and innovation-minded school systems. "The schools represent a catharsis of guilt for many people in Las Vegas," says Newcomer. "They are glad to have something that gives this community an identity and a stability it never had before...