Word: tactfulness
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...Home (by Tad Mosel) reshapes for the stage the late James Agee's extraordinary Pulitzer prizewinner, A Death in the Family. The undertaking could not but be hazardous: beyond the tact that Agee's novel was not quite finished and not quite a novel, what made it memorable was the highly personal charge of the writing- fine special sharpness of detail and as uncanny a gift of memory as of metaphor. And what the book had. in the absence of all unity of form, was marked unity of feeling. Considering how much A Death lacked that the theater...
...medieval children's crusade a spirit common with the "Peace Corps" plan. The reference was not meant mockingly, but, taken as a mark of disdain, it suggests a real danger. Membership in a "Peace Corps" calls for roughing it without complaint, for adapting to a strange cultural environment with tact and grace, for representing one's country both honestly and positively. This is work for neither a child nor a wild-eyed crusader. When abroad, these U.S. youth must, indeed, as Melady repeatedly said, "take the ball and run it across the goal line," but in order to score...
...would henceforth be green. Three years after his exile to the Soviet embassy in Outer Mongolia, the Kremlin last week announced that former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. ("The Hammer") Molotov was being brought back to represent Russia on the International Atomic Energy Agency in gay Vienna. With characteristic tact, the Russians chose to break the news on the 21st anniversary of the day Molotov signed the 1939 non-aggression treaty between Russia and Nazi Germany...
...sentiments on Nixon found echoes all over the U.S. Republican papers made no bones about their enthusiasm-or their hopes. The Los Angeles Times found him "the only man in the history of the Republic who has had 'on-the-job' training," and added: "He has tact and the ability to make the right decision before the crisis engulfs him. The talent will serve him well when he is President." The liberalRepublican Chicago Sun-Times agreed: "Vice President Nixon has demonstrated that he has the great quality of leadership a political party must have in its candidate...
Faced with this polyglot group, Manager Murtaugh is wise enough to stay in the background, build his regulars' confidence by leaving them in the line-up through slump and surge. Murtaugh is the soul of tact when he walks out to relieve a pitcher. His standard remark: "It's one of those days. We'll get you a little help." This season Murtaugh himself is not sure why his Pirates have rebounded so well from last year's disappointing fourth-place finish. "You never know why they do good," he says. "You can only be grateful...