Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intended) when your cartographer scrunched my native state down into the likeness of a run-down Oxford, with its western boundary at the northern end canted at an angle of S 8° W. Its true shape, of course, is that of a smart half boot, and the boundary in question runs due N & S. I am sure there is some hellish symbolism in this deformity, but I'm not smart enough to fathom...
...called Eduard Benes the only "permanent Minister" in Europe. Others dubbed him "Europe's smartest little statesman." That was how he looked between the wars. He did not change but the world did, and long before the end came last week, Benes looked anything but permanent, anything but smart...
...Communists, however, were too smart to take the blame for postponing the elections. They merely abstained from voting, with sly Jacques Duclos announcing: "We want no part of this thieves' quarrel...
...groups going, plowing through everything from Plato to the Bill of Rights. But he is proudest of the schoolkids he has turned into book lovers-the little Negro girl who read 150 books in one summer; the seventh-grader who produced a letter from his teacher saying he was smart enough to read adult books and then asked for a volume of Toynbee; the 8,000 kids enrolled in his summer reading program. Says Jacobs: "I think a child who reads, who creates new interests, will never be delinquent...
...simple that it's a cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over...