Word: tact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connor's devotion to detail soon became legendary. She once offered an amendment to a bill merely to insert a missing, but important, comma. As majority leader, she learned to use both tact and toughness to cajole colleagues into achieving consensus on divisive issues. When the usual flurry of eleventh-hour legislation delayed adjournment of the Arizona legislature in 1974, one committee chairman was furious at what he considered O'Connor's failure to finish up the senate's business. Said he to O'Connor: "If you were a man, I'd punch...
After Lefever finished defending himself there were 13. Some Senators had doubts about his ethics, others about his politics, others about his tact and judgment...
...Rochefoucauld or Stendhal, they serve the author's high purpose. Singled Out is not, after all, a pillow book. It is a guide for the perplexed, who are warned away from useless rage and grief, and humanely advised to "behave with a certain kindness, civility and tact, to ease one another's passage through this changeable and occasionally brutal world." Such counsel may not be quoted in the Playboy Philosophy, but it ought to be singled out for inclusion with every marriage license - and separation paper...
...been approved, would have vastly increased the Secretary of State's power. Then, three weeks ago, he told newsmen that the Soviet Union had a "hit list" of Central American nations. That blustering allegation, though probably consistent with the President's own beliefs, revealed a disregard for subtlety and tact profoundly dangerous in the nation's highest-ranking diplomatic official...
Director Lynch--whose only previous film is the weird and silly Eraserhead--handles Elephant Man with rare tact and delicacy. He paces his film deliberately, creating a cautious, mild-mannered atmosphere that keeps it from becoming a ridiculous creature feature or a two-hour sermon on life's injustice. He subtly presents a London caught in the grasp of the Industrial Revolution. Lynch's camera tracks through crowded and filthy streets and alleys, where the loud chugging and whooshing of factory machines creates an incessant, maddening clamor. In one night-marishsequence dozens of dirty, sweating, barechested laborers slave over...