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Word: tactfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Kennedy did it again. During questioning by friendly Republican Congressmen on the Joint Economic Committee, he was asked whether the current 4% unemployment rate was "acceptable or unacceptable." Ignoring a prepared statement that a staffer hastily handed to him, Kennedy replied with more candor than tact: "Under present circumstances, it is acceptable." To compound matters, Kennedy also raised anew the idea that if present anti-inflationary policies do not work, the Administration would have to consider "moving into the field of controls of some kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The High Cost Of David Kennedy | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...four summers now, in the center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use anything--from a Times Square News Flasher heralding the scenes to a case of Carling Black Label in the New Tankard Cans at the Last Supper--but use it only with the tact of art, the high decorum which subsists in the meetness of technique and purpose...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Jesus | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...summer of 1955, the President, fishing and golfing in Colorado, suffered the first of his heart attacks but recovered quickly. Less than a year later, in June 1956, he was stricken again, this time with ileitis, which required major surgery. To his credit, Nixon, then Vice President, responded with tact and humility in a situation that might have stopped other men. After two such illnesses, it seemed impossible that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF PEACE | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Amid rigged climaxes and sobbing violins, Smith acts Miss Brodie with tact and subtlety. But even profound craftsmanship cannot create sympathy. From the opening it is clear Miss Brodie is a petty self-deceiver and the fabric of her life is threadbare and shabby. The rest of the film is only variations on a seam. "A guid beginnin' makes a guid endin'," her class is informed. Aye; if only the revairrse did not hoold as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Down the Up Staircase | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Noon and Night play it safer and softer. Terrence McNally redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Three Authors in Search of an Act | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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