Word: tact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations he had visited, Stevenson had conducted himself with a nonpartisan sense of responsibility, wisdom and tact. What had he been called on to explain most often? "McCarthyism," said Stevenson with no pause at all. He was cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We have been winning the cold war, step by step," he said. "In consequence, the danger of world war has diminished ... for the present." But the picture also had its dark side-which Democrat Stevenson by implication laid at the door of the Eisenhower Administration. Said he: "Just now, unhappily, [U.S.] prestige and moral influence...
...exactly between two parties: the leftist Socialists (73 seats) and the conservative Catholic People's Party (74 seats). The one man who kept everything from tumbling down was Chancellor Leopold Figl, himself a conservative, who for eight years presided over a coalition of the two opposing parties with tact and humor...
...psychological and the tactical aspects of love. Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, a moody, Freudian opus (TIME, Oct. 13), came first. Then in a more frolicsome vein, came Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, and its story of light-hearted Spanish intrigue. Apart from the tact that both operas were done thoroughly to the first-nighters' taste, the chief interest centered on the second conductor of the evening. After Company Director Joseph Rosenstock had conducted Bluebeard, he turned over the baton to the youngest conductor on his staff: 23-year-old Thomas Schippers (pronounced shippers...
...Michigan to handle himself. Brownell's information from his contacts in those states was so good that he could tell Fine and Summerfield things they didn't know about their own delegations. His reputation as a political operator was such that they believed him-and his tact kept them from resenting his superior information...
...armed services (see The New Administration). Between times, he had defined his own political position toward the Republican Party, i.e., loyal but not subservient, and clinched the liberal wing's dominance in his administration. He had met "the Mac Arthur problem" and the "Taft problem" with tact...