Word: tact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigor of the black churches, there is still a role in Africa for traditional missionaries with skills and tact. One is Alfred Merriweather, 63, a physician sent in 1944 by the United Free Church of Scotland to run the Livingstone Mission at Molepolole, Botswana; the center is named for David Livingstone, the famed 19th century Scottish missionary and explorer. Merriweather has seen massive changes over four decades. "On reflection, we made many mistakes. When I joined the mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their...
...Sociology Professor Sherry Turkle, an expert on the psychological impact of computer games: "The training could go two ways. It could have a numbing effect, making nuclear war more linkable, or it could heighten the revulsion. The computer is confronting us with something we tend to repress: the brute tact that we are playing with the survival of the planet...
...youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now 50, Enders is Assis tant man of State for Inter-American Affairs and the point man for U.S. pol icy in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is urbane but also aloof, even cold, and almost cynically pragmatic. His blend of tact and two-fistedness resembles the style of his former mentor, Henry Kissinger...
Adlai Stevenson once said we do not have to like our adversaries to live with them. The Franco-Soviet gas deal is a case in point. Though wanting in tact. France's initiative has enhanced the chances for co-existence with the Russians. By emulating the French in creating new ties with the Soviets, the rest of the West can further the cause of mutual dependence ad hence move further away from the prospect of mutual annihilation...
...architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost...