Word: tact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lordliest convoys in history (they carried the British and Americans to Africa). There are some eye-shattering shots of combat, too. The film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most unfortunate touch is the finale between the off-screen voices of a British and a U.S. soldier philosophizing vaguely about the postwar world, signing off with a glad, excruciating: "Wot a job! Bringin' back the smiles...
...wife, to report a more astonishing possibility: that Lord Beaverbrook may succeed Eden at the Foreign Office. Growled the Post: "Lord Beaverbrook's dynamic energies have more than once rendered the country valuable services, but he has never displayed a great interest in the affairs of Europe, and tact in negotiation is not commonly regarded as one of his outstanding gifts...
...conduct of education is not an international matter. . . . The job of carrying educational ideas across national frontiers . . . requires considerable tact, sympathy and experience. . . . With the exception of the most obvious cases, a foreigner cannot tell whether teaching is warlike or not. Of course, it is plain in the goose step, the maps, the warlike mottoes: but when it comes to the more delicate emphases, the problem is so difficult [as to be] impossible...
...been likable kid plays (e.g., the current Kiss and Tell) that have left a young girl's reputation hanging on a hickory limb, only to show in the end that she didn't go near the water. Such plays are made ingratiating by the author's tact and talent. But Wallflower's playwrights are unfortunately lacking in real...
...UNRRA's hardest job: to find men who combine technical knowledge with tact...