Word: tactfulness
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TEMPO DI ROMA, by Alexis Carvers (328 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $4.50), is evidence that nothing makes more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight...
Such a balancing, however, seems an unstable equilibrium; it depends very much on a great deal of restraint and tact by both the opponents of religion and the advocates...
...Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served for ten years with dignity and tact in spite of Protestant carping at home...
...extremely gratified to find you devoting whole handfuls of words to my book, A Twist of Lemon [Nov. 10]. While your reviewer seemed somehow callously immune to the opinion of my agent and my mother that it is the greatest book of the century, he certainly treated me with tact and sympathy...
Moderate Goals. Asks Author Herold: "What was the nature of the brilliance Germaine had radiated?" It was neither beauty nor tact nor intellect. As Herold sees it, what made Germaine unique was that "she sought essentially moderate goals by the most passionate means." She "exalted" love; yet "the goal was not the agonizing passion she knew but the quiet happiness that eluded her." She pursued ideals with equal passion, but always with the hope that she might "agree peacefully" with enthusiasts whose ideals were different. Thus, concludes Biographer Herold in one of the odd conclusions-of-the-month...