Word: taciturn
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...meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold Henderson (former Nipponologist at Columbia University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves as gadfly to his ritualistic feudal society, sits in judgment on its fools and fakers. These stories establish...
Troubled & Sad. Crisp reminders of everyday reality shocked and estranged his 16th century public; he even got fired midway through work on frescoes for the duomo in Cremona. Today his inventive if taciturn brilliance is earning him increasing admiration. He is recognized more and more as a man of his time, for his canvases, above all, are a commingling of the shifting manners then stirring in the art world...
Rigid Auditing. A longtime Providence banker who was brought into Textron by Founder Royal Little in 1954 as Little's heir apparent, taciturn, trim-waisted Rupe Thompson runs his far-flung company with a staff of only 83 people on one floor of a Providence office building. He allows his divisions to operate almost autonomously, much as at General Motors, a corporation that Thompson has studied minutely and admires mightily. His staff coordinates the company's affairs, channels profits where needed. "I'm all for delegating responsibility," says Thompson, "but I also ask for accountability." That takes...
Move Over, Cousin. And how about the competition? There were the 1965 factory Fords, breezing cockily around the 2½-mile oval, confident of sweeping everything in sight. Zoom! Past them flashed two 1964 Mercurys, privately entered cousins belonging to Bud Moore, a taciturn garage owner from Spartanburg, S.C. In the time trials, Darel Dieringer clocked 166.66 m.p.h. in a Ford-powered Mercury to win the pole position for the start of the 500. Somehow, Moore was getting more out of his power plants than the factory experts who built them in the first place...
...been forced to grant the Buddhist majority in his strife-torn nation in the past few weeks. The coup leaders are officers who had either been fired by Khanh or were on the brink of being cashiered. Top man seemed to be Brigadier General Lam Van Phat, a lean, taciturn officer who last week was eased out of his job as Interior Minister in Khanh's Cabinet. Under the murdered Roman Catholic President Diem, Lam Van Phat had been appointed 7th Division commander, but he was considered by U.S. military advisers to be a "mediocre" general...