Word: tact
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...really want to increase con- tact with greater Cambridge...and with Blackstudents on campus," Goodwyn adds. "We're planninga newsletter, more meetings and informationalthings...
...Mahony and Mr. Marx bring to this multitude of tasks an array of professional skills, knowledge, tact and, most importantly, sound judgment...
...lack of tact (and timing) of this piece is a perfect example of the extent to which some students ignore the issues. I finished his article feeling that not a single valid point was made, except maybe that the sixties were over (quite a revelation indeed...
...common tact is to accuse the anti-ROTC camp of hypocrisy. After all, goes this argument, Harvard accepts all sorts of scholarships limited to specific groups: Cuban-Americans, students from a particular town, female science students, etc. Isn't this the same as the ROTC discrimination...
...sensed in this tale elements that would bring out the best in him. Spielberg has always been a man who likes to work on big, crowded canvases, but he has never challenged his skills with a subject so dense and dark as this one, never used them with more tact or to better dramatic and emotional effect. There is a kind of morality -- a respect for one's tools and materials and for the intelligence of the beholder's eye -- in the craftsmanship he has deployed. It serves the interests of the tale, not the ego of the teller...