Word: tactfulness
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...WILLIAM MAXWELL, 91, author and New Yorker fixture who polished the prose of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and J.D. Salinger, among other authors; in Manhattan. A 40-year veteran of the magazine, Maxwell wrote six novels as well as dozens of short stories, essays and reviews. Renowned for his tact and insight, he edited such writers as Eudora Welty and John O'Hara, and he once took a train to tell John Cheever that one of his stories had been rejected...
...even more annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...
...round this baldly shaven fact One must step with little tact: An older woman had outrun A 100-meter champion...
Always playing with the crowd, Guster's final song was inspired by a cardboard sign reading "MONA LISA," a track from their first album _Parachute_. Perhaps proving the tact of the decision to keep Brian behind the bongos rather than the mike, Ryan relinquished his position of lead vocals for most of the song. While Brian's rather off-key voice had more than a slight waver, the crowd didn't hesitate to sing right along with this unexpected lead, capping off a great night. Any questions about the appropriateness of the Run-Guster combination, it seemed, had been...
...dean needs vision, tact, persuasiveness and an enthusiastic commitment to undergraduate education," Knowles says...