Word: tactfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admire Taylor for the sublime tact of his writing; no one's behavior, however bizarre, causes a ripple in Nathan's gentle but exacting account. The problem lies with Aubrey. He repudiates the Tuckers and the hypocrisy that kept him a true outsider. "Compromise," he intones. "That's their rule of life." And he blames Nathan for being "part of the world he was born into...
...cards this morning. After grabbing some cereal with his hands, he began kicking the box, scattering little round corn puffs across the room. Next he turned his attention to the TV set, or rather, the table supporting it. The table was covered with a checkerboard Con-Tact paper, and Dusty began peeling it off. Then he became intrigued with the spilled cereal and started stomping it to bits. At this point his mother interceded. In a firm but calm voice she told her son to get the stand-up dust pan and broom and clean up the mess. Dusty...
...unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays great tact in those passages...
...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...