Word: tactfulness
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Among the six soloists, Robert White (countertenor) and Charles Bressler (tenor) were particularly outstanding--both for technical accomplishment and tact. Especially when singing with the ensemble, they maintained a sense of humility, rising above the group, but never dominating...
Sandy commands his words without succumbing to the charm of the charm of their sound. He merges emotion and form with a tact that unfolds a whole lifetime by indirection...
...hundreds of millions of people" and their hopes that "the great powers who hold the key to war and peace will remove the threat of war and lead the world to peace." The Russian people have yet to be told that Khrushchev has actually begun testing, and Nehru tactfully avoided mentioning the fact. But his tact earned him nothing. Khrushchev, hacking away on his current canard, replied that "aggressive forces want to plunge the world into another war," and that "in view of the direct threat to the U.S.S.R., we are faced with the need to carry out experimental explosions...
...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...
...sister. No one could expect him to violate in this way his deepest values and beliefs. For the same reason, nobody should suggest that he be required beyond the limits of necessity to give up the habits and tastes of a lifetime of eating, drinking, working and playing. Tact, sensitivity, and consideration are certainly needed. Every Corps member will encounter situations in which he must be flexible and perhaps willing to go more than halfway in giving up his own preferences. But generally he will find that others are willing to make concessions too. He will be most effective...