Word: tactful
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...easily shocked, insisted there was no such thing as a "distinctively native American criminal class, except Congress." In 1906 Henry Adams, whose own father and grandfather had served in the House of Representatives, somewhat disapprovingly quoted a Cabinet member as follows: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...
...exemplified by Wilson, then, postfeminism is getting along with men without selling oneself short. It is taking responsibility instead of fixing blame. It is partnering and, yes, accomodating the male ego, while still trying to make progress toward equal rights. It is tact instead of confrontation. It is marriage instead of divorce...
...anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more effective for its understatement and -- just what this picture needs -- its total lack of predictability...
Despite his offensive remarks and occasional lapses in tact, John R. Silber would be an effective and innovative governor, Cambridge's state senator told a small audience yesterday at the Institute of Politics...
...said that despite Silber's want of tact he would still support "a front-room leader instead of a back-room negotiator...