Word: tactfulness
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...Abby" letters per month, prepares advanced seminars and is developing a national training center for pastors and schoolteachers, as well as a "character curriculum" that he hopes many colleges will adopt. According to Gothard, they should scrap conventional subjects and rebuild courses around 49 virtues, including diligence, loyalty and tact...
...with a combination of calculated modesty and poignance. There is even the same sort of bubble-bath musical score by Michel Legrand to orchestrate the conveniently unhappy ending. The destiny to which Muffy's bad luck leads her is surprising, not because it has been engineered with any tact but because it seems so arbitrary and imposed. Like the climaxes of most melancholy romances, it is never real enough to matter...
French Nemesis. In tact, Washington's unhappiness with Europe is caused by much more than the EEC conference proposal. Kissinger feels that Western Europe does not know what it wants and is plagued by weak leaders and minority governments. He is annoyed that Europe has dragged its feet on drafting the new Atlantic Charter that he proposed eleven months ago. France, which has openly warned other European countries that they can maintain their identity only if they keep some distance from the U.S., is a particular nemesis. Most rankling, perhaps, is the EEC'S method of "consultation." Kissinger...
After Shirley Jackson, Ira Levin et al., Maloff can hardly rock the reader with such corny corn-god doings Yet he handles the shift from Teddy bears to ritual sacrifice with skill, tact and humor. He has also produced a fable for our feminist times...
...author handles all this with great credibility, tact and humor. But Elizabeth is more than a fleshed out case history because she has a strong character. For whatever reason, self-pity and the view that everyone is a victim, are not part of her makeup. Trying to be normal is very hard work. Elizabeth winds up with the philosophical and moral equivalent of dishpan hands. But she is not one to disguise expensively acquired truth under some perfumed, feminizing unguent...