Word: tactfulness
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...Members arrive on a Friday morning, meet in committees (educational policy, finance, budgets, endowments and gifts, buildings and grounds, honorary degrees), and in the evening go to Mory's, where the waiter laconically asks each of them: "Clams or oysters? Steak or lobster?" Informal talks are leavened by tact, wit and persuasive intellectual argument. "There is a tremendous sodality," says Walpole Scholar Wilmarth Lewis, who holds the record for continuous membership, 26 years...
...government and instilled by the press. It was a slow process by which the U.S. came to share with the Russians a desire to stabilize the present division of power and influence, and now the reversal of alliances cannot be effected overnight. Thus the mass media had to show tact in taking for truth the pronouncements of men like Mikhail Suslov, once branded as liars. Unable to bring themselves to a specific espousal of the Khrushchev cause, the media have achieved their goal by simply presenting the Khrushchev version of what the dispute is all about: war vs. coexistence, racism...
...thanks flow from me to TIME. I have never seen such tact and magnanimity in my life. JOHN CHEEVER...
...Theater Company has clearly expended a great deal of energy on this production. Dustin Hoffman as Clov, Frank Cassidy as Hamm, and Jerry Gershman and Naomi Thornton as Nagg and Nell all act with discipline and tact in a play that tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget...
...LADY ORMSBY GORE. Invitations bearing the lion-and-unicorn crest have long been coveted in official Washington, and Sylvia ("Cissie") Ormsby Gore can have anybody she wants to dinner. In tact, she could probably have everybody, for the massive British embassy is among the world's largest and gets one ot the fattest entertainment-and-housekeeping allowances anywhere ($94,680). Sir David knows the President from the days when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to London, sails with him on the Honey Fitz and is friendly with most of the Administration's other key people. Cissie prefers having twelve...