Word: tactfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Clearly, the ad was a hideous example of poor taste, and the decision to run it displayed a total lack of tact on the part of The Owl, the paper at the center of this controversy. Nevertheless, the reaction of these students was unwarranted. First of all, in these socially aware times an ad as anachronistic as one for topless dancers should be a self-mockery, not deserving of attention from students who have better things...
...this reticence a matter of residual shame -- retained from his religious childhood -- or considerate tact? People who were close to Gunn are sure they know the answer. Says Vanessa Caldwell, his assistant at the Montgomery (Alabama) Women's Medical Clinic: "He was a very open, honest man. I think that's why it bothered him that his family didn't know the kind of work he did, exactly. He knew it would hurt them if they found...